Sentence examples for features of the skeleton from inspiring English sources

Several features of the skeleton are characteristic of the order Carnivora.

The presence of scutes and other features of the skeleton, such as the curve and shape of the lower jaw, demonstrated that Scutellosaurus is more closely related to the stegosaurs and the ankylosaurs in suborder Thyreophora.

However, he accepts that the features of the skeleton are a mix of old and modern characteristics with the small brain size (one third that of modern humans), curved fingers and joints of the shoulders and hips being similar to the older Australopithecus, which pre-date Homo, and the early human species Homo habilis, or "handy man".

Contrasting the many sauropod-like features of the skeleton, the pelvis was relatively primitive, reminiscent of its "prosauropod" ancestors.

Complete skeletons have been described only for the most advanced abelisaurids (such as Carnotaurus and Aucasaurus), making it difficult to establish defining features of the skeleton for the family as a whole.

D. matildae differs from W. wattsi in most features of the skeleton where similar elements are preserved.

Fringe length and tortuosity are obtained automatically from the features of the skeletons, while fringe separation is obtained by analyzing manually selected fringe pairs.

A unique feature of the skeleton was that there were teeth marks on some of the bones and "you can see how the skeleton was torn apart by some marine reptile, perhaps a carnivorous ichthyosaur".

Montastraea annularis, the only Atlantic 'Bigmessidae' is sister to Cyphastrea, a grouping that can be reconciled by their septothecal walls, a microstructural feature of the skeleton determined by recent morphological work.

Following their co-expression in the developing skeleton, the interaction between RUNX2 and VDR became involved in further definition of the features of the mammalian skeleton (Shen and Christakos 2005, Lian et al. 2006).

Other features of the parrot skeleton include a prominent keel on the sternum (breastbone), except in the flightless owl parrot of New Zealand, and a highly variable furcula (wishbone), which may be normal, weak, unfused, or absent.