Sentences with phrase «lungfish on»
The biggest lungfish on record has been uncovered in an unexpected place — a drawer in the Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln.
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look up the lungfish, or anything on the evolution of whales.
Kirkland and Shimada suspect the monster lungfish, which dates from between 160 million and 100 million years ago — during the age of dinosaurs — fed on turtles.
The African lungfish (Protopterus annectens) has lobe - shaped fins similar to those seen in the ancestors of the first vertebrates to walk on land.
Two of these, the South American and South African lungfishes, are well adapted to air breathing and can survive on just their lungs for extended periods.
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.
Lobe - finned ancestors of the lungfishes as well as tetrapods could have evolved hindlimb propulsion and the ability to walk on the substrate at the bottom of a lake or marsh millions of years before limbs with digits and land - dwelling animals appeared.
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.