Sentences with phrase «like lungfishes»
Every week or so, I take a journey down to the local fish wholesalers, where I purchase assorted feeders, dry goods and the occasional oddball fish — herp people are big on things like lungfish, electric eels, and the like.
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So far, Archer has found remains of carnivorous kangaroos, marsupial lions, giant snakes, tree - climbing crocodiles, miniature tyrannosaurs, prehistoric lungfish, and the largest - ever bird, a 10 - foot - tall 1,000 - pounder that he likes to call the «demon duck of doom.»
Watching a lungfish, our closest living fish relative, crawl on its four pointed fins gives us an idea of what the first evolutionary steps on land probably looked like.
The eel - like body and scrawny «limbs» of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion.
«It's tempting to attribute alternating impressions to something like the footfalls of an early tetrapod with digits, and yet here we've got good evidence that living lungfish can leave similar sequences of similar gait,» said Coates, PhD, professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy.
«What we're seeing in lungfish is a very nice example of how bottom - walking in fish living in water can easily come about in a very tetrapod - like pattern.»
December 12, 2011 A small step for lungfish, a big step for the evolution of walking The eel - like body and scrawny «limbs» of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion.