Sentences with phrase «called tetrapod»

Perhaps the strangest, most immediately unrecognizable key chain of the three is the geometric, stepped shape, subtitled An institutional maze (Steptrapode), which is based on a heavy concrete erosion defense structure called a tetrapod or a dolos.

It is the first discovery of a so - called tetrapod from the Devonian Period in continental Europe, which may trigger an interest in re-examining objects in museums.

Once ashore, these four - limbed vertebrates, called tetrapods, branched into an impressive range of animals: amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals.

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Enamel — an almost pure layer of a mineral called hydroxyapatite — coats the teeth of almost all tetrapods (four - limbed creatures) and lobe - finned fish such as coelacanths.

Reptiles (also called «herps») are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane.

Tetrapod World: early evolution and diversification (TW: eed) re-created the environments these distant relatives called home.

The tetrapod - shaped zinc - oxide nanoparticles, called ZOTEN, have negatively charged surfaces that attract the HSV - 2 virus, which has positively charged proteins on its outer envelope.

This crucial evolutionary transition is preserved in the fossilised remains of animals called stem tetrapods, which have some features of fish and some of four - legged animals.

This family of loaches, sometimes called sting - loaches, is found in Eurasia and Morocco and has about 28 genera with about 236 species (Berra The evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe - finned fishes.