Sentences with word «squamate»
«We have laid down the structure of squamate relationships and yet this is still the beginning,» said Dr. Pyron.
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«Squamates include all lizards and snakes found throughout the globe, including around 9,500 species on every continent except Antarctica, and found in most oceans,» said Dr. Pyron.
This fossil's quadrate bone is more C - shaped, and it surrounds the animal's hearing apparatus — a «characteristic feature» of a group of lizards called squamates, says co-author Robert Reisz, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Toronto in Mississauga, Canada.
Organisms of interest include fossil and living squamates (snakes and lizards) as well as of extinct marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.
Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.
Alex Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Assistant Professor of Biology in GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, along with researchers from the City University of New York and Arizona State University, detail the cataloging of 4,161 species of snakes and lizards, or squamates.
«As hundreds of new species are described every year from around the glove, this estimate of the squamate tree of life shows us what we do know, and more importantly, what we don't know, and will hopefully spur even more research on the amazing diversity of lizards and snakes.»
«But if the rest of the animal is not a squamate, then teeth do not make you a snake.»
«It completely lacks key features of the vertebral column that would make it a squamate [scaled reptile] and more specifically a snake,» he says.
Even though the squamate reptiles include more than 10,000 species — almost double the number of mammal species — a single genome was not enough to understand the variability within this group,» said the first author of the report, Marc Tollis, a post-doctoral fellow at ASU.
Chameleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are squamates that belong to one of the best known lizard families.
In the picture above, the player can see all of his squamates» health and names.