Sentence examples for group of land from inspiring English sources

In South America and Australia, however, marsupials continued to be an important group of land mammals.

The bryophytes are a diverse group of land plants of small stature but large ecological impact.

Although Messel is famed for its fossil mammals, birds are the most abundant and species-rich group of land vertebrates.

In September 1999, the conservancy and a group of land trusts joined to buy 758 acres of land in Fairfield County, known as Trout Brook Valley, from BHC.

Nor did anyone realize that dinosaurs still dwell among us in the form of birds, which continue to be the most diverse group of land vertebrates.

Puffins form part of that anointed group of land and sea creatures over which the British public likes to bill and coo.

NEW HAVEN Reynolds Fine Art "Vista: A Study of the Land," group show.

Any of a group of land-dwelling vertebrates that have an amnion during embryonic development, including reptiles, birds, and mammals.

But a group of "land-lubber" felines wandered onto the yard in 1893 and finally brought the rat population under control within a few years.

There is no state shipping agency, save for the Texas Navy (a group of land-lubbers given a gilded certificate by the governor as an official backslap).

Until now, paleontologists, citing anatomical evidence, had contended that whales evolved from an order of ungulates called mesonychians, an extinct group of land-dwelling carnivores that resemble but are unrelated to hyenas.