Roses have thorns.

There is no rose without a thorn.

You reap what you sow.

There is no rose without thorns.

There is no such thing as a thornless rose.

Beautiful flowers have thorns.

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The most beautiful flowers have the sharpest thorns.

The anal fin has two or three spines, and the pelvic fins one spine and five soft rays.

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Whoever sows thorns shouldn't expect to harvest roses.

But of course, we can deal with that because we can produce artificial spines.

So to our blueprint, we need to add tuned spines.

The rose has thorns only for those who want to touch it.

Then one by one, she would encircle these thorns with dark ink.

Let's slow it down and you can see the spines in action.

It will yield thorns and thistles to you and you will eat the herb of the field.

Coordinated movements of the spines enable sand dollars to move across the seabed.

Now, cotton is soft but the outside of the plant is just full of stickers.

And where they have a problem with this kind of mesh, because they don't have spines.

The crabs are missing spines, so they have a problem in this kind of rough terrain.

So why not add a spine? My colleagues did this at U. Penn.

Jesus is brutally scourged and mocked with a crown of thorns by his guards.

Jesus is subsequently flogged and a crown of thorns is placed on his head.

We can make spines that catch on simulated debris and collapse on removal to easily pull them out.

We did that by putting these artificial spines on crabs, as you see here, and then we tested them.

Now just because we have a distributed foot and spines doesn't mean you can climb vertical surfaces.

The next step is to make compliant toes, and try to add spines and claws and set it for dry adhesives.

To test his idea, he inserted small thorns from a tangerine tree into the larvae.

According to legend, another ancestor acquired the Crown of Thorns during the Sixth Crusade.

So here's a dinosaur that has spikes sticking out of its head, no dome and gnarly stuff on its nose.

Madonna used religious symbols, such as the crucifix and Crown of Thorns, in the performance of Live to Tell .

These tuned structures allow the spines, friction pads and ultimately the adhesive hairs to grab onto very challenging, difficult surfaces.

Their increasingly spiny forms in the last 1 billion years may indicate an increased need for defence against predation.

And then Stygimoloch, another dinosaur from the same age, lived at the same time, has spikes sticking out the back of its head.

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These allow paleontologists to examine the internal anatomy of animals, which in other sediments are only represented by shells, spines, claws, etc.

The spikes on the back of the Stygimoloch are actually resorbing, which means they're getting smaller as that dome is getting bigger.

The body of the short beaked echidna is, with the exception of the underside, face and legs, covered with cream coloured spines.

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When she tells him in anger that he will never see Rapunzel again, he leaps from the tower in despair and is blinded by the thorns below.

A Crown of thorns according to the Bible, was placed on the head of Jesus before his crucifixion and has become a common symbol of martyrdom.

Much like a spider, the body of a solifugid has two tagmata an opisthosoma (abdomen) behind the prosoma (that is, in effect, a combined head and thorax).

During the procession of the statue through the streets, some faithful participate with votive offerings, stripped to the waist, wearing a cloak of thorns of wild broom (called spalas ).

Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.