Sentences with phrase «land mammals like»

Not exact matches

Most remarkably, the creature, which was less than 3 feet long, had the body of a fish but the jaws, ribs, and limb - like fins seen in the earliest land mammals.»

some things match up — like mammals after other land animals, and sea life before other living creatures.

Walking Whale French artist Marguerite Humeau has re-created the song of Ambulocetus, a mammal that walked on land and swam like an otter.

Australia is the land of weird mammals like kangaroos and koalas that nourish their young in external pouches after a brief gestation.

Indeed, expanding the survey to include the bats» compatriots of the skies: woodpeckers, egrets, hummingbirds, and other birds, showed that the genome dynamcis of the two flying mammal species was more like that of the birds than the land - bound mammals.

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

Like modern - day marine mammals, which also returned to the sea from life on land, they were air - breathers.

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).

Although vertebrate life exists on land, the reptile - like tetrapods of this period predate any mammal or bird and would certainly «swarm» upon the land.

There are other land - based pathogens like Sarcosystis (from opossums), that have a similar host range in marine mammals.»

This year, the Institute and Cavallo Point Lodge will welcome groups like the Trust for Public Land, Environmental Defense Fund, Public Health Law and Policy, and the Marine Mammal Center through its special Institute group rate.

The fragile habitat is also home to millions of birds, land mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and marine mammals like the elephant seals that feed, birth, breed, molt, and rest in the lands and waters surrounding the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse.