Sentences with phrase «evolving vertebrate animal»
No longer is this extremely rare order of ancient fish crowned the slowest evolving vertebrate animal in the world.
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Sex hormones, including testosterone, evolved 500 million years ago — before the first vertebrate animals — from the «mother» of all steroid hormones, estrogen.
By comparing the genomes of 203 vertebrates, they first traced the origin of KZFPs back to a common ancestor of tetrapods (four - legged animals) and coelacanth, a fish that evolved over 400 million years ago.
Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian, plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.
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Read previous Zoologger columns: How weakness makes the crayfish stronger, The heaviest animal in the air, Ancient air - breathing, triple - jawed fish, Horror fly returns from the dead, Even parasitic worms have a divided society, Shrimp plays chicken with its sex change, Death by world's longest animal, Live birth, evolving before our eyes, Sympathy for the piranha, The world's most fecund vertebrate.
Read previous Zoologger columns: Ancient air - breathing, triple - jawed fish, Horror fly returns from the dead, Even parasitic worms have a divided society, Shrimp plays chicken with its sex change, Death by world's longest animal, Live birth, evolving before our eyes, Sympathy for the piranha, The world's most fecund vertebrate, Whale - eater's helpful sulphur - powered guests, Horror lizard squirts tears of blood.
A new study reveals that this process may have evolved long ago, as it shows that embryos from an ancient spider develop just like those of vertebrate animals.
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).
«Five years ago, we didn't know that amphibians or any vertebrate animals could evolve induced tolerance to pesticides.