Sentences with phrase «distinctive body plan»

They were fully adapted to an aquatic lifestyle, and had a distinctive body plan comprising a streamlined body, paddle - like limbs and a very long neck with up to 75 individual vertebrae.

They were fully adapted to an aquatic lifestyle, and had a distinctive body plan comprising a compact, streamlined body, long, paddle - like limbs and an extremely elongated neck with a large number of vertebrae (Fig. 1).

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That group includes all dinosaurs but also includes their earlier predecessors and their subsequent kin, which had the same general body plan but didn't have distinctive anatomical features in their hip bones that all true dinosaurs shared.