Sentence examples for evolved on land from inspiring English sources

Hornworts have an ancient lineage and are thought to be some of the earliest plants to have evolved on land.

At the same time that these elementary methods of signal communication were being evolved on land, a comparable development was going on at sea.

Seagrasses are aquatic plants, marine grasses that evolved on land with other grasses and later migrated back to the coastal ocean.

"When you see the salt crystals on every leaf," he said, "you're like, 'Wow.' These are flowering plants that evolved on land and are coming back to meet the sea, and all their cellular processes are not designed for this.

These observations suggest that winged insects evolved on land, rather than in aquatic habitats, the authors conclude.

The sharp vision their ancestors had evolved on land to take advantage of the transparency of air was of little use in the ocean's murky darkness.

The creature has players either defeating or befriending rival species while their creatures evolve on land.

Furthermore, this pigment family can be identified in angiosperms, such as sea grasses, that have returned to an aquatic habitat after initially evolving on land (Trocine et al. 1981).

The marshy conditions of the dinosaur freeway (the reason its footprints formed, and have survived) may, though, have favoured crocodilians over predators that had evolved on drier land.

Reptiles first evolved on the land, but several groups later returned to the oceans, including the ichthyosaurs.

Because terrestrial environments have always existed, it is possible that life evolved on the land (including in lakes, rivers, streams, and flooding areas) as early as aquatic life itself (see Retallack 1986aand references therein).