Sentences with phrase «air breathing reptiles»

• Although sea turtles are air breathing reptiles, they can hold their breath underwater anywhere from four to seven hours.

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The dolphins of their day, ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles that breathed air and swam at high speeds.

However, the whole idea is nonsense, not least because air - breathing reptiles couldn't escape detection.

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).

Like other reptiles, sea turtles breathe air, and females lay eggs.

Unlike other air - breathing aquatic reptiles, ichthyosaurs did not have to return to land to lay eggs, but bore live young.

As air - breathing reptiles covered with impermeable skin, sea turtles are one of the few marine species that are suited for terrestrial life.