Not exact matches
The Bible said not all
species of animals but all kinds of animals, and not all animals, only
land vertebrates.
@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant
vertebrate species; 2) the fact that
land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct
land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.
So, how many
species of
land vertebrates are there?
While the fossil record from this slice of the Paleozoic Era is too incomplete to say whether any of these animals were directly related or just distant cousins, the
species represent the transitional nature of the
vertebrate move from water to
land.
Mortelliti, who holds degrees from the La Sapienza (University of Rome), is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Habitat Conservation at the University of Maine, where his lab's research is focused on the impact of
land - use change on
vertebrate species (mammals and birds).
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant
species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first
vertebrates to live on
land, but allowed others to expand across the globe.
Now there are 30,000 ray - finned fish
species in the ocean, making this class the most numerically diverse and ecologically dominant among all
vertebrates on
land or in the ocean.
Yesterday, representatives from the National Park Service, which manages
land on which many of the U.S.'s nearly 400 endangered
vertebrate species live, visited the lab to sign an agreement with the museum to allow for storage of DNA samples from these
species in the chilly facilities.
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 specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of
land - living
species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major
vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.
MASS & EXTINCTION ► Humans and livestock are 97 % of
land vertebrate biomass ► Humans and livestock eat 40 % of
land chlorophyll biomass ► 50 % of
vertebrate species died off in the last 50 years.