How To Use Amphibian In A Sentence
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A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
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In ‘Amphibians,’ the tortoises arranged around the shell-like form vary in size gradually.
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You could, for example, take the Urban Birds or Marine Birds tours; familiarise yourself with the amphibians living in the ponds up on Montjuïc, or inspect the biodiversity of the Parc del Castell de l'Oreneta through a magnifying glass.
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The data set included sequences of genes from mammals, birds, amphibians, coelacanths, lungfishes, ray-finned fishes, and cartilaginous fishes.
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Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt automatically to changes in their environment, without their noticing.
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Fish are amphibian bearcat animals that are about ectothermic (previously cold-blooded), covered with scales, and able with two sets of commutual fins and several unpaired fins.
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Young amphibians, like the larval frog or tadpole pictured here, spend their early years in the water, breathing through gills in the side of their head in much the same way as fish do.
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Of the five endemic amphibians two are tree frogs (Afrixalus clarkei and Afrixalus enseticola), two are ranid frogs (Phrynobatrachus bottegi and Phrynobatrachus sciangallarum), and one is a caecilian (Sylvacaecilia grandisonae).
Ethiopian montane forests
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It is particularly common amongst arthropods and rotifers, and can also be found in some species of fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles, but not in mammals.
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The distribution, water chemistry, ecology, hydrology, limnology, and invertebrate and amphibian fauna of vernal ponds have been investigated.
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In this country at least, a specialist in reptiles and amphibians has little to show off in terms of identification skills.
Times, Sunday Times
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As evidenced by the articles in this volume, a recent increase in interest in the mating systems of poikilothermic vertebrates has focused primarily on fishes, a few amphibians, and squamate reptiles.
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He had purchased two Piper Cubs on floats and had also arranged with a local doctor to lease his new Republic Seabee amphibian.
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Anastasi A, Erspamer V, Bucci M (1971) Isolation and structure of bombesin and alytesin, 2 analogous active peptides from the skin of the European amphibians Bombina and Alytes.
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First ever national 'stocktake' of reptiles and amphibians and annual wildlife survey hope to replicate success of the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch
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We're amphibians, living part of our lives in the water and part on land.
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Reaching lengths of over two feet in length and weighing over 3 lbs., the hellbender is the largest amphibian species found in North America and the third largest salamander in the world, coming in behind the Chinese and the Japanese giant salamanders which are truly massive.
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Despite numerous surveys, the amphibian has not been recorded in its rain forest habitat since 1986.
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Scientists like Shubin, Gao, and Carroll say they are attracted to the study of salamanders because the amphibians give them a window to see how evolutionary mechanisms work.
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The Albertine Rift is home to about 19 percent of Africa's amphibian species, including more than 30 endemic species and three monotypic endemic genera: Parkers tree toad (Laurentophryne parkeri), the Itombwe golden frog (Chrysobatrachus cupreonitens), and African painted frog (Callixalus pictus, VU).
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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Amphibians are most at risk, partly because of epidemics caused by chytrid fungi.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are seven categories of fish, including the basking shark, and the same number of amphibians and reptiles such as turtles, toads, lizards and newts.
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Among vertebrates, newts and other urodele amphibians show a remarkable capacity for regeneration.
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The hypothesis that lungfishes are the sister group of amphibians is supported by two possible synapomorphies: loss of a saccus vasculosus and the presence of neurocranial endolymphatic sacs.
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Among the zoological delights that awaited them according to him were the dagger-tooth: a 120 kilo, furred predator of the mountains; the greater snowbird with a three-meter wingspread and talons that could carry off a full-grown Klingon; plus a host of uncatalogued amphibians that made the marshes acutely inhospitable.
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The living amphibians have turned the limitations of the aqueous connection to advantage.
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Scientists believe that the chytrid fungus is responsible for a worldwide decline of amphibians.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lectures offered include one about reptiles and amphibians native to Kentucky, which includes a chance for the children to handle live, non-venomous snakes, lizards, salamanders, toads and frogs.
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Amphibians are what we call barometer species of our planet's health.
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Of the five endemic amphibians two are tree frogs (Afrixalus clarkei and Afrixalus enseticola), two are ranid frogs (Phrynobatrachus bottegi and Phrynobatrachus sciangallarum), and one is a caecilian (Sylvacaecilia grandisonae).
Ethiopian montane forests
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A spokesman for the Wetland Centre said there are already signs that this will be an excellent breeding year for amphibians with large clumps of frogspawn evident in shallow pools throughout the reserve.
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In amphibians, there is convergent extension of the future neural plate during gastrulation.
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The great man settles himself down next to reptiles and amphibians.
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Some amphibians and fish lay eggs in clusters, with the outer ones protecting the inner ones.
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The team of scientists, who work for Reptile and Amphibian Ecology International, also identified four new species of stick insect, three species of lungless salamanders, a tiny, scaly-eyed gecko known as Lepidoblepharis buschwaldii and a bushmaster, which is the longest viper in the world.
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But there are also adaptive and purely analogical homologies, such as the interdigital palmation of aquatic birds, amphibians and mammals.
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“Filling in this large vernal pool/wetland will result in the direct loss of 0.69 ha of amphibian breeding habitat, fragmentation of the habitat and the probable displacement of area-sensitive, pollution intolerant herpetofauna as well as other potential wildlife species,” the report states.
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Changes to homeotic genes cause monstrosities (two heads, a leg where an eye should be, etc.); they do not change an amphibian into a reptile, for example.
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In dry years, such as the year of this study, ponds were dry by mid-June, invertebrate and amphibian larvae were unable to develop enough to metamorphose and emerge from the water.
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fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals
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Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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The floristic diversity of the Solimões-Japurá moist forest ecoregion harbors a high diversity of mammals, insects, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
Solimões-Japurá moist forest
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Most amphibians hatch as aquatic, swimming larvae, then metamorphose into terrestrial forms.
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Plants and many insects and amphibians have an additional method: chemical defense.
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Amphibians such as frogs, toads, and salamanders are undergoing rapid population declines, most likely due to fungal disease, climate change, habitat loss, and pollution.
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The study finds 122 species of frogs, toads, salamanders and legless amphibians have probably become extinct since 1980 and warns that a third of all amphibian species currently face the same fate.
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‘This is really fascinating because, though males are known to guard eggs, they have never been known to transport the froglets,’ said Janalee P. Caldwell, specialist in amphibian biology at the University of Oklahoma.
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Large, invasive, and voracious as adults, bullfrogs often out-compete - and often eat - native amphibians.
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Amphibians are regarded as sentinel vertebrates in the current drama of global extinctions.
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In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear gills and are used for gas exchange.
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The reptiles and amphibians of the world began a general withdrawal from existence many, millions of years ago.
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Two main types of early amphibians include the large powerfully built labyrinthodonts and the small, slender lepospondyls.
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These amphibians, like modern frogs and salamanders, hatched from eggs and spent their larval period in the water as tadpoles.
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One group of extinct crossopterygians, known as the rhipidistians, are the group thought by most to be the ones that successfully invaded land and gave rise to amphibians.
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Research by these scientists and others has identified many deadly viral infections as well as the chytrid fungus as factors in some amphibian die-offs and population declines.
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The lateral line system of fishes and many amphibians comprises lines of mechanoreceptive neuromasts distributed over the head and trunk.
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The form was vaguely human, but also amphibian, with a froglike mouth opened wide and glittering white gems for eyes.
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Plants and many insects and amphibians have an additional method: chemical defense.
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The Toad Party was against cruelty to all amphibians - particularly toads - but behind the humour was a serious message of care for the environment.
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Special mention is made regarding specific groups, such as amphibians, phasmids, dermapterans and dipterans, whose current diversity includes 14, 30, 16 and 9% of species described by Philippi, respectively.
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The same trends are likely to exist in reptiles, amphibians and fish, but the study focused on mammals because of their rich fossil record.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among tetrapods, most species of mammals, birds, amphibians, and chelonians are larger at higher latitudes.
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Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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Spadefoot toads are desert-dwelling amphibians that breed opportunistically in short lived pools filled by periodic rainfall.
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If the amphibians could manage to deposit their eggs out of water, their young would certainly have greatly increased chances of survival.
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Both the toad and frog are amphibian.
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The toll is largely due to the global spread of the amphibian chytrid fungus, which affects breathing and feeding.
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The dragonette saw the amphibian but did not charge.
Odyssey
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Among vertebrates, newts and other urodele amphibians show a remarkable capacity for regeneration.
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most amphibians have caducous gills
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Water is absorbed directly through the skin - no adult amphibians are known to drink.
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Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today.
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Grumman created Design 7, which was a single-engine biplane amphibian with landing gear that retracted into its large central float.
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It provides important habitat for almost 400 species of migratory birds, 80 species of mammals, and 40 species of reptiles and amphibians.
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Roger Kitching, who as a boy in the 1950s began collecting insects and amphibians in the weedy rubble and drainage ditches of bombed-out Hull, England, found that "with collecting comes the need to record.
Spiral-Bound and Spellbound
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Sheldon is a recognized birding site. Various species of mammals, amphibians and reptiles are common, and not the least of the show-stoppers is the American alligator.
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As a result, we are losing the animals that feed on them: birds and reptiles and amphibians and mammals.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are seven categories of fish, including the basking shark, and the same number of amphibians and reptiles such as turtles, toads, lizards and newts.
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Specimens of fish and amphibians taken from radioactively contaminated or otherwise polluted areas also show some apparent fluctuations in DNA content.
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However, recent studies on a wide variety of amphibian species have revealed great diversity in feeding mechanics and kinematics, and illustrate that stereotypy is the exception rather than the rule in amphibian feeding.
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This remarkably varied community of insects, birds, amphibians and animals all thrive in a beautiful but oft-times harsh environment.
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Big-eyed amphibians peer out from nearly every page of this collaborative effort by the curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo and the editor-in-chief of Wildlife Conservation magazine.
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Although they are amphibians, caecilians are denizens of the terrestrial underworld.
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The males - exemplary fathers among amphibians - stay behind to protect the tadpoles.
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The only other vertebrate animals to show an efficient form of self-mutilation are certain amphibians, especially salamanders.
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Two new 250-million-year-old species of large, meat-eating amphibians have been discovered by researchers.
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The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin, the lungfish.
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Amphibians such as frogs, toads, and salamanders are undergoing rapid population declines, most likely due to fungal disease, climate change, habitat loss, and pollution.
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Much evolutionary diversification of feeding mechanics and motor control has occurred and it is likely that stereotypy is a derived feature of amphibian feeding.
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Reptiles and amphibians recorded from the islands include 2 geckoes (Hemidactylus spp.), 2 agamid lizards including the common garden lizard or blood sucker (Calotes versicolar), the snake skink (Riopa albopunktata), common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus), another snake, Typhlos braminus, a short-headed frog, Rana breviceps, and a larger toad, Bufo melanostictus.
Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
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Notochords are the axial skeleton of invertebrate chordates (cephalochordates, appendicularians, and tadpole larvae of ascidians), of agnathan fish, and of amphibian tadpoles.
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Though considered a pest because of the culvert-clogging dams it builds on streams, the beaver is an ally in conserving valuable wetland habitat for declining amphibian populations, a University of Alberta study shows.
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However, frugivorous fish, tortoises, lizards, and even amphibians also disperse seeds.
Frugivore
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Important amphibian species occurring within the site include alpine salamander Salamandra atra and Alpine newt Triturus alpestris.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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If you really struggle, reptiles and amphibians rarely cause problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lateral line system is a series of sensory organs, usually appearing in a line or series of lines on the sides and heads of fishes and larval amphibians.
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Low tide left vast mudflats across which landing ships and landing craft could not beach and amphibian tractors could not crawl.
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Among vertebrates, only the cartilaginous fishes, lungfishes and amphibians (especially salamanders) possess exceptionally large C-values.
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Whether it was a labyrinthodont amphibian or a primitive reptile has been much disputed.
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Water is absorbed directly through the skin - no adult amphibians are known to drink.
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The productive Paleozoic era gave rise to hard-shelled organisms, vertebrates, amphibians, and reptiles.
February 2009
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Yet it is also a global hot spot of biodiversity, with scores of endemic species of amphibians, birds, mammals, plants, and reptiles.
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Among vertebrates, newts and other urodele amphibians show a remarkable capacity for regeneration.
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In amphibians the inner ear is mechanically coupled to the pectoral girdle through the operculum.
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If you really struggle, reptiles and amphibians rarely cause problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Albertine Rift harbors more endemic mammals, birds, and amphibians than any other region in Africa.
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One of our amphibian friends has left a batch of golden yellow frogspawn in our pond overnight!
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Endothermic homeothermy, or ‘warmbloodedness,’ is one of the major evolutionary developments of vertebrates, and among the most significant features that distinguish existing birds and mammals from reptiles, amphibians and fish.
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In addition to ecological studies investigating the timing of amphibian metamorphosis, a considerable amount of work has addressed the endocrine control of metamorphosis.
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So with sovereign ambition she steeled herself to the daily horrors of amphibian osculation.
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Amphibian skin thus appears to have limited options for waterproofing, because it is thin, poorly keratinized, and therefore supple.
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Most of these turtles are carnivorous, feeding on mollusks, crustaceans, aquatic insects, fish, and amphibians.
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From the very beginnings of life in the sea - the mollusks and trilobites - to the appearance of vertebrates, the author sets the stage for the evolution of sea creatures to land animals, tracing the development of fins to limbs, fish to amphibians and reptiles.
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Instead of viciously attacking them, the amphibian began to speak in a gurgling voice, thin spindly arms waving about.
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No amphibian or terrestrial reptile, and only one terrestrial mammal, the hoary bat, completed the journey on its own.
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The putschists wasted no time in sending aerial-amphibian troops to Estonia to reinforce the Soviet army forces garrisoned there.
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More than 500 new species have been described or reported, including several mammals, one a new genus of otter shrew, more than ten amphibians and reptiles, several fish and arthropods, notably centipedes and harvestmen, and molluscs.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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The blind salamander (Proteus anguinus), also known as the olm, has the longest lifespan of any amphibian, often living to over 70 in zoos, and with a predicted maximum age of over 100.
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The scientists were keen to clarify the term "cold-blooded", which - although a familiar description used for many reptiles, amphibians and fish - can be misleading.
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In humans, 10% of spontaneous miscarriages are due to triploidy, but triploids of fish and amphibians can grow to adults and some species are even fixed in the triploid state.
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Bioacoustic signals appear to be so essential to the social communication of anuran amphibians that other sensory modalities have been largely ignored.
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As a result, the Marines would have to depend on thin-skinned amphibian tractors, or amtracs, barely tested at Guadalcanal.
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These colorful, carnivorous amphibians feed heavily on both terrestrial and aquatic insects, small invertebrates, and their eggs and larvae.
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On the poorly appreciated role of reptiles and amphibians, he said that geckos, garden lizards, frogs and toads have a vital role to play in the ecosystem.
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Plants and many insects and amphibians have an additional method: chemical defense.
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Maximum parsimony analysis of this latter data set also recovered monophyly of living amphibians and favored a frog + salamander (Batrachia) relationship.
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Triclosan may also interfere with the action of thyroid hormones in amphibians.
Canada.com
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Some not-so-familiar creatures, like the legless, burrowing caecilians, are also amphibians.
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The great man settles himself down next to reptiles and amphibians.
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Current changes due to electrogenic Na + Ca2 + exchange activity were first demonstrated in amphibian retinal rod outer segments, and later in cardiac myocytes.
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Aside from sharing the same mode of thermoregulation, amphibians and reptiles are very different organisms.
Amphibian
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Faludi used a biomedical analogy -- the concept the ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny --- that the stages of development of a fetus recapitulate the evolutional stages from single celled micro-organism to fish to amphibian to reptile to hairy mammal.
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Birds have not evolved yet but the air is filled will a symphony of croaks and calls of amphibians and insects.
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Terrestrial amphibians face a challenge analogous to that of marine intertidal animals, in that they are highly permeable animals in a potentially desiccating environment.
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Included among these vertebrates are sharks, bony fishes, amphibians, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, and dinosaurs.
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At least 10 of the 16 original species of amphibians (frogs, toads and salamanders) survived the eruption.
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Many other types of animals - both amphibians and reptiles - shared the Triassic world.
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Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today.
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Although both groups exhibit very similar chondrogenic patterns of the tarsus, only the amphibian pattern is preserved through osteogenesis.
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In the spring, the large pond and reedbed come alive with amphibians.
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The biologist said developers of housing subdivisions and industrial parks often approach him for amphibian-tunnel advice but then downgrade the designs in order to save money.
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Color changing or metachromatism or metachrosis is common in chordates and in vertebrates such as fish, amphibians and in some types of lizards.
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In this country at least, a specialist in reptiles and amphibians has little to show off in terms of identification skills.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smith: The word 'specialist' has a legal meaning in veterinary medicine, and it applies to veterinarians who have received further training and are "board certified" -- the number of vets who are board certified in working with exotics, reptiles, amphibians or birds is very small, but if you can find one, that's great!
The Seattle Times
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Also present are several nationally rare species of reptiles and amphibians, including Indian monitor Varanus bengalensis, giant Asiatic toad Bufo asper and Asiatic giant frog Rana Blythii.
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand
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The amphibian below tore more flesh from the dragonette, and some of the six limbs lay amputated.
Odyssey
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Mammal, amphibian, coleoptera, dicotyledon, cryptogam, -- all these terms, which, if they were translated into the language of a peasant, would be seen to record very simple observations, yet do lend a kind of formal majesty to ignorance.
Romance Two Lectures
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All of these Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic amphibians are called labyrinthodonts and lepospondyls, based on features of their teeth and vertebrae.
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Among the amphibians, species of interest include Euproctus asper, Rana temporaria and R. pyrenaica.
Pyrenees-Mont Perdu, France and Spain
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Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today.
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In this country at least, a specialist in reptiles and amphibians has little to show off in terms of identification skills.
Times, Sunday Times
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In most vertebrates in which they have been intensively studied - amphibians and birds - gastrulation movements are rather complicated.
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Members of this group are chiefly external parasites of turtles, fishes, and amphibians.
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This feeling of frustration, so incisively conveyed by these considerations by P. Medawar, pervaded in the forties the field of experimental embryology which had been enthusiastically acclaimed in the mid-thirties, when the upper lip of the amphibian blastopore brought this area of research to the forefront of the biological stage.
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Some amphibians can also be difficult to handle due to their coating of protective slime.
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For while adult amphibians usually live on land, their soft eggs must be laid in the water.
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Amidst chanting of vedic hymns, the temple priests garlanded the brides and tied the magalsutras on behalf of the frogs pronouncing the two as wives of the amphibians before the sacred fire at the auspicious hour.
January 21st, 2009
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The political animal, the political observer and the political electorate are, like amphibians, poikilothermic - their own temperatures adjust to that of their environment, so that if a change is gradual enough, they won't even notice it.
Boiling a frog
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He called, but Simon heard no real words, only a kind of beeping such as some swamp amphibian might voice.
Web Of The Witch World
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There is also a large aquarium trade, supplying animals both as pets and as food for fish and amphibians.
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Mammal, amphibian, coleoptera, dicotyledon, cryptogam, -- all these terms, which, if they were translated into the language of a peasant, would be seen to record very simple observations, yet do lend a kind of formal majesty to ignorance.
Romance Two Lectures
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Learning to snorkel was rewarding, but it also taught me that I am no amphibian.
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For his doctoral work, Breck studied the reptiles and amphibians of Minnesota, with a special focus on the black-banded skink.
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Only it grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber, and great albatrosses, gray with storm-battling of the Horn, wheel and veer.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Young amphibians, like the larval frog or tadpole pictured here, spend their early years in the water, breathing through gills in the side of their head in much the same way as fish do.
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The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin, the lungfish.
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As the continent's largest frog species and second largest amphibian the hellbender is the largest, bullfrogs are powerful predators that will eat anything smaller than themselves that they can fit down their large mouths.
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In addition to differentiated retinal cells, the amphibian eye contains a population of self-renewing retinal stem cells located in the retinal periphery in a region called the ciliary marginal zone or CMZ.
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Recently, a new amphibian family was discovered in Kerala in the Western Ghats; the burrowing anuran family, Nasikabatrachidae, with the single species Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (EN), represents the only endemic amphibian family in the hotspot.
Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
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Open pond displays are homes to a wonderful collection of amphibians such as the red-eared slider, the common snapping turtle, wood turtles, painted turtles, and stinkpot turtles.
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Learn about wonderful birds, amphibians and flowers at this nature reserve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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The skin of amphibians is permeable to water.
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That wild-eyed amphibian has brought people together across the land, uniting one and all across this nation in their shared annoyance.
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As evidenced by the articles in this volume, a recent increase in interest in the mating systems of poikilothermic vertebrates has focused primarily on fishes, a few amphibians, and squamate reptiles.
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One group, including amphioxus, lampreys, sturgeons and amphibians, displays the primitive condition, with holoblastic eggs and involution of the endoderm through a blastopore.
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According to the Wildlife Warden, V. Ganesan, the study of amphibians and reptiles, known as herpetology, had begun to attract the attention of biologists in the recent times.
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Some water molds are parasites on other organisms; they may grow on the scales or eggs of fish, or on amphibians.
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It is only found in the muscles of amphibians and many fish species such as hake, yellowtail and pilchard.
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This was first recognized more than a half century ago in cytological studies of lampbrush chromosomes in amphibian oocytes and polytene chromosomes in insects.
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Tetrapods, whose closest living relatives are lungfish, have two main groups: amphibians and amniotes.
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By one count, 1 in 3 of the 5,743 known species of frog, toad, salamander, and other amphibians are dwindling.
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Mark Hutchinson, reptile and amphibian curator at the South Australian Museum, caught the immature female taipan while it was crossing a dirt track.
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Wake and Donnelly also noted that together with the small, lung-less frog, the diminutive new caecilian suggests that lunglessness is most likely to appear in land-dwelling amphibians that are relatively small.
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In lower vertebrates, such as fish and amphibians, the pronephros acts as the functional kidney in the immature juvenile stages, but the mesonephros is the functional kidney in the adult.
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Sparling is an authority on amphibian ecotoxicology.
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Some not-so-familiar creatures, like the legless, burrowing caecilians, are also amphibians.
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This is followed by a discussion of metamorphosis in insects and amphibians.
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It looked like a failed attempt to fertilise a rare amphibian in vitro.
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The one, half-amphibian, breasting the water with muscular arms, could not hope to overtake or escape an enemy who propelled a fire-hollowed tree trunk by means of a wooden paddle; nor could the other, trusting to his own nimbleness, compete with a foe who careered wildly across the plain on the back of a half-broken stallion.
The Shrinkage of the Planet
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A newt -- aka a hellbender or mud puppy -- is a slimy amphibian with an uncanny ability to reinvent itself by regenerating limbs, eyes, jaws, a spinal cord, even its heart.
Michael Sigman: The Newtiness of Newt
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Vertebral counts in modern amniotes, amphibians, and fish, can vary due to environment or change with growth.
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For more than a century, urodele amphibians have been used as models for embryology, physiology, and natural history research.
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Its predominant life features are the culmination and the beginning of the decline of reptiles, amphibians, cephalopod mollusks, and cycads, and the advent of marsupial mammals, birds, teleost fishes, and angiospermous plants.
The Elements of Geology
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On the basis of broad structural characteristics, amphibian antimicrobial peptides have been grouped into superfamilies, each being differentiated into various families.
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The only endangered species of amphibian is the natterjack toad.
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The Carboniferous was the age of lycopods and amphibians, as the
The Elements of Geology
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If you really struggle, reptiles and amphibians rarely cause problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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In both mammalian and amphibian eggs, integrins have been proposed as putative sperm receptors.
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The only other vertebrate animals to show an efficient form of self-mutilation are certain amphibians, especially salamanders.