Sentences with phrase «than mammals actually»

For decades, if not centuries, scientists rejected the notion that animals other than mammals actually play, even when faced with observational reports of frolicking fish or apparently fun - loving birds.

Not exact matches

DR. STACEY MERLO: They are important for birth because human babies have the biggest head of almost any mammal that gets passed through and we're actually delivering babies earlier than their full term development because of the size of the head and all of us have had babies in the room and we know that that's the hardest part.

«The range of viable sizes for mammals in the ocean is actually smaller than the range of viable sizes on land,» Payne said.

Yet he cautions that the «conclusions of the paper are overstated» because the study does not prove that prehistoric lice were actually infesting the direct ancestors of today's bird and mammal species rather than other animals that may have led to evolutionary dead ends.

To western humans, this seems bizarre, but lactose intolerance is actually a far more common trait in adult mammals than the ability to digest lactose.