Sentences with phrase «vertebrate animals moved»

KNOXVILLE — Around 390 million years ago, the first vertebrate animals moved from water onto land, necessitating changes in their musculoskeletal systems to permit a terrestrial life.

Around 390 million years ago, the first vertebrate animals moved from water onto land, necessitating changes in their musculoskeletal systems to permit a terrestrial life.

Not exact matches

While the fossil record from this slice of the Paleozoic Era is too incomplete to say whether any of these animals were directly related or just distant cousins, the species represent the transitional nature of the vertebrate move from water to land.

Some animals — for instance the cyclothone, the most common vertebrate in the world — even use light as camouflage during the day as they move about more than 1,000 feet beneath the surface.

While large vertebrate mammals, like deer or bear, might be able to make that overland journey to keep up with northward - shifting temperatures, smaller animals and plants just don't move that fast, Anderson said.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

He is particularly interested in using the principles of biomechanics to better clarify behaviour in extinct vertebrates, e.g., how animals stood and moved, walked or ran.