Sentences with phrase «air breathing mammals»

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Like all mammals, whales breathe air into lungs, are warm - blooded, feed their young milk from mammary glands, and have some (although very little) hair.

This illustration in a fish with a proven ancient lineage of a highly evolved system controlling variations in heart rate suggests that its evolution was necessarily linked to the advent of air breathing over primitive vertebrate lungs rather than the much later appearance of mammals.

Much like today's marine mammals, marine reptiles evolved from land - living ancestors and were air - breathing.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

The air - breathing marine mammals become entangled in the fine - mesh nets.