Sentences with phrase «other land vertebrates»
The team also compared the 7442 genes found as single copies in both the cobra and the python with the same genes in all other land vertebrates sequenced so far.
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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.
The second change involved in the transition to frogs and toads from other amphibians was in the sacral ribs, broad bones attached to a vertebra which in most land - living vertebrates fit below and inside the pelvis to hold it fixed relative to the backbone.