Sentences with phrase «than mammals like»

Many products are neurotoxic insecticides that work on specific nervous receptors which adult fleas, ticks, and other insects have in greater quantity than mammals like cats, dogs, and people.

That Steve was named Steve was also revealing: Octopuses are the only animals, other than mammals like cuddly seals, that aquarium workers bother to name.

Not exact matches

These features, together with their egg - laying ability, are more like that of a lizard than a mammal.

Most remarkably, the creature, which was less than 3 feet long, had the body of a fish but the jaws, ribs, and limb - like fins seen in the earliest land mammals.»

Example in point: Opposition to embryonic stem cell / human cloning research: It isn't anti science to oppose treating nascent human life like a corn crop or manufacturing embryos, anymore than it is anti science than the Animal Welfare Act the proscribes what can and can't be done in scientific research with some mammals.

The shape of the creature's 36 - centimeter (1.2 - foot) snout, which points straight forward rather than slightly downward like today's river dolphins, suggests the mammal spent most of its time at sea and likely fed on fish, the scientists say.

Pigs and people, both mammals, pass flu back and forth quite easily; a pig is more like a person than a chicken when it comes to temperature and cell receptors.

Mammals can maintain a constant body temperature and so are thought to be less vulnerable to temperature changes than cold - blooded animals like reptiles.

Like pyrethroids, fipronil is far less toxic to birds and mammals than other insecticides, but can still kill small aquatic life.

Like Rich, he thinks that A. nyktos is a primitive tribosphenic mammal, but disagrees that it can be categorized more specifically than that.

It is even less diverse than other endangered mammals, such as the cheetah or Tasmanian devil, or birds, like the crested ibis or osprey.

More than 60 mammal species — like the famous flying squirrel — have adapted the ability to sail from tree to tree.

The only mammal - like critters were usually smaller than rats, and they scuttled through the underbrush chasing insects.

«They look very different than mammals today,» says team member and paleobiologist Kenneth Angielczyk of Chicago's Field Museum,» similar to the way a T. rex doesn't look much like a goldfinch.»

Indeed, expanding the survey to include the bats» compatriots of the skies: woodpeckers, egrets, hummingbirds, and other birds, showed that the genome dynamcis of the two flying mammal species was more like that of the birds than the land - bound mammals.

Mammals (and birds, who are also «warm - blooded») tend to grow much faster than «cold - blooded» vertebrates, like fish and reptiles.

That's 7000 different ways of saying «good morning» or «it looks like rain» — more languages in one species of mammal than there are mammalian species.

Sea otters must eat about 25 % of their body weight daily to maintain their body temperature since unlike other marine mammals they rely solely on their fur rather than an extra layer of blubber to stay warm — it's like a 120 - pound human eating 30 pounds of food per day.

Dinosaurs are more closely related to snakes than they are to mammals, and the moose and the horse are no better guides to what dinosaurs looked like than manatees, humans, or voles.

When they examined the canal structures of more than 200 mammal species, the research team found that fast, agile movers — like gibbons and leaping tarsiers — have exceptionally large canals for their size, while slow, deliberate animals like sloths have small ones.

Like other mammals, the platypus secretes milk through its skin to feed offspring and is warm - blooded — though its body temperature is nine degrees Fahrenheit (five degrees Celsius) cooler than that of a human.

So rather than taking after big marine mammals, what if we could learn from the littler ones, like beavers and otters?

Yet according to Willem Hillenius, a physiologist at UCLA who is also a paleontologist, maxilloturbinals perform an even more fundamental task than acting as a filter: they permit mammals like us to be warm - blooded.

But more importantly, that's also faster than the snakes» mammal prey, like jackrabbits and kangaroo rats.

«Mammal - like reptile survived much longer than thought: Fossils in Japan overturn widely accepted theory about tritylodontid extinction.»

By the end of the Pleistocene, when the last great ice age ebbed, other human ancestors were gone, humans had settled the Americas and long - range weapons like spears and arrows were common — and the average mass of mammals had fallen from nearly 100 kg (220 pounds) to less than eight.

Interestingly, the mammalian Boule proteins appeared to share higher sequence similarity than insect homologs despite the fact that mammals have an additional Boule - like protein, Dazl, suggesting that the presence of Dazl did not relieve the selective pressure on Boule in any significant way.

All types of mammal milk, including cow's milk and human milk, also contain another type of casein called kappa casein, but kappa casein comes in two very different forms — a «ruminant» form (for animals with more than one stomach, like cows) and a «non-ruminant» form (for animals with only one stomach, like humans).

Mammals have faster rates of digestion than more primitive animals do thanks to small, finger - like projections called «microvilli» that increase the surface area of the intestines by about seven-fold.

The Italian greyhound, much like the Jack Russell Terrier has a particularly high prey drive and even when trained if they are off leash and catch sight of a small mammal they will more than likely take off in pursuit of them.

So far this year, The Marine Mammal Center has released more than 100 healthy animals back to the wild, many of them young sea lions just like Percevero.

At Egg Mountain near Choteau dinosaur eggs have been discovered supporting the theory some dinosaurs were more like mammals and birds than like reptiles.

Our dear old Earth has had carbon dioxide levels much higher than what we see now and life of all kinds flourished, including mammals like us.

Of far greater concern than corals in particular is the ocean food chain in general, because while acidification will probably result in more oceanic dead zones as the amount of CO2 goes up and the amount of oxygen falls, if you kill off the plankton and pteropods that use carbonate to make their shells, then you kill off the food supply for the vast majority of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals).

Second, some mammals seem more vulnerable to habitat loss than others: insect - eating mammals — like anteaters, armadillos and some primates, are the first to disappear — while other groups, like herbivores, seem to be less sensitive.»