Sentence examples for become terrestrial from inspiring English sources
There are three main objections to this theory; first, the "frogs" are usually, though not always, young toads; secondly, they are always perfect little frogs or toads - that is, they have passed the aquatic tadpole stage and become terrestrial in their habits; they have ceased to inhabit ponds.
Most amphibians lay their eggs in water and have aquatic larvae that undergo metamorphosis to become terrestrial adults.
Nevertheless decapods have become terrestrial on numerous occasions: four families are represented among oceanic land crabs listed in Table 1, several other lineages have evolved onto land elsewhere, and many others show lesser degrees of terrestriality [26].
In contrast, year-round wet environments were most likely necessary for amphibious snails to become terrestrial, contrary to the belief that seasonal drought accelerates terrestrial invasion [ 3].
As some birds moved out of the trees and became terrestrial or aquatic, their legs were accordingly modified.
"We always wondered why some primates became terrestrial and not others," Benefit says.
Reptiles evolved from amphibious ancestors which left the aquatic lifestyle and became terrestrial.
The flow was at the rate of about 6000 feet per year or about 16 feet per day until 1979 and as a result the glacier became terrestrial by 1993.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00231.002 Ever since life became terrestrial ∼360 million years ago, animals have developed increasingly sophisticated methods to navigate their environments (Dickinson et al., 2000).
We must assume that its scansorial habits, along with those of the austral Pygarrhicas albogularis, represent ancestral habits, and that the Ochetorhynchus species, which inhabit the intervening geographical areas in the Andes, diverged and became terrestrial, as they adapted perfectly to the harsh and treeless landscapes that arose as a consequence of Andean uplift and aridification.
As a result of this change, tetrapods could become fully terrestrial.
