Sentence examples for instead of mammals from inspiring English sources

Imagine that we had evolved from reptiles instead of mammals.

It is rare that such favorable microhabitats are near pigpens and enable ticks to feed on pigs instead of small mammals inhabiting burrows.

Instead, a lineage of mammals gradually became more and more adapted to life in the water.

Our results demonstrating that third ventricle injection of trout GRP in trout causes hyperventilation and hypertension without significant change in ƒH may be compared to previous cardioventilatory studies conducted in mammals using bombesin instead of a mammalian GRP.

Instead of fearing the towering mammal that Burrard-Lucas is, these tiny mammals welcomed him into their territory and even used him to their advantage.

Manatees have six neck vertebrae instead of the seven typical of mammals.

The lower jaw, however, was reptilian in structure, being composed of seven bones instead of one as in mammals, and had a different, primitive articulation with the skull.

They are like the duckbilled dinosaurs happily munching on the still-abundant plants around them when the meteor strikes instead of the small furry mammals underfoot who take cover every day by natural habit.

Their neck vertebrae are jointed, like those of land mammals, instead of being fused together as in most whales.

Any nation that wants to sell its seafood alongside our own should have to make similar efforts to reduce harm to marine mammals instead of driving them toward extinction.

In T. brucei, the Tf- TbTfR complex is endocytosed in clathrin-coated vesicles [ 45], and its adaptor protein, TbEpsinR, instead of AP-2 from mammals, promotes clathrin assembly.