Sentence examples for like amphibians from inspiring English sources

(Indeed, some animals which occupy multiple niches during their lives, like amphibians, survived the Cretaceous deep impact).

All species develop like amphibians, i.e., they ontogenetically re-capitulate a "newt/salamander -stage of gill developmenewt/salamander -stage

I've been really interested in amphibians lately, because I feel like amphibians are these creatures that live half way in one world and half way in another.

"If the drought persists there will be catastrophic consequences for all kinds of species especially those dependent on water, like amphibians," Nott said.

In groups with high extinction rates and poorly known species boundaries, like amphibians, such tools may provide a way to rapidly evaluate species richness.

This highlights that often several taxa are abundant in one wetland (some, like amphibians, are strongly dependent on water bodies for at least a section of their life cycle).

The former are ape-like hominids who eventually throw their lot in with the Horde and the latter are fish-like amphibians who side with the Alliance.

The microsaurs, as the name implies, were small lizardlike (or salamander-like) amphibians, less than 15 cm (6 inches) in total length.

"You need a lot of resources in this business, and I knew he would be able to get them".To the non-herpetologist, caecilians, the subterranean worm-like amphibians that are the subject of her PhD, are even less appealing than frogs.

The park has also produced many fossil vertebrates including giant crocodile-like reptiles called phytosaurs, large salamander-like amphibians called Buettneria, and early dinosaurs and invertebrates, including freshwater snails and clams.

It has been proposed that these basal embryological mechanisms were conserved as amniotes evolved from urodele-like amphibians (Shook et al., 2002 ; Shook and Keller, 2008 ; Bachvarova et al., 2009b ), and that this explains the extraordinary retention of the body plan of urodeles and reptiles (lizards, crocodilians, etc).