Sentences with phrase «legged land animals»

As lungfish ambled across the floor of the tank, they raised their bodies off the surface — something only four - legged land animals usually do, according to a paper published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

One of the chapters in the book is about this recent finding in the Arctic by Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler and Farish Jenkins; this spectacular transition from fish to four - legged land animal, exactly right, filling part of sort of the periodic table, of the fossil record and knowing where to look, what age rock to look in, and of course, a pretty big element of luck.

Not exact matches

Land animals, in contrast, use their leg muscles to walk, and keep their spines immobile.

THE first four - legged animals colonised land 400 million years ago, but it took them 80 million years to lose their fishy heads.

«This is the world's oldest known broken bone from a four - legged animal — and it must have broken on land»

Not only are they the largest living birds and the fastest ones on land, but they are probably the only animal with two kneecaps in each leg.

And like many other land animals, they've got four legs to move them around.

One would not think that this would be the case at an animal poison control center, but it seems that our 4 - legged friends can find this time of year as stressful as we do and land themselves on the naughty list and in some potentially very dangerous situations.