Sentence examples for living orders from inspiring English sources

Almost certainly all living orders and most living families of birds were in existence by the end of the Eocene.

The living orders of the Dipnoi, of which there are two, are distinguishable mainly by the number of lungs they possess.

It is noteworthy that the evolution of live birth has taken place independently in all three living orders of amphibians, for this phenomenon also occurs in salamanders and caecilians.

A recent publication by 105 authors provides the first whole-genome analysis of key bird families representing all living Orders, and with it a more fully fleshed-out sense of the origins and timing of the evolution of modern birds.

Unlike other insects, the wing muscles of species of Ephemeroptera (mayflies) and Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) (the two living orders traditionally classified as "Paleoptera") insert directly at the wing bases, which are hinged so that a small movement of the wing base downward, lifts the wing itself upward, very much like rowing through the air.

Eparctocyona was used by McKenna [ 22] and McKenna and Bell [ 9] to denote not only cetaceans and artiodactyls, but also assemblages of so-called "condylarths", including mesonychids, arctocyonids, and other extinct groups with controversial affinities to living orders.

Clupeiform (order Clupeiformes), any member of the superorder Clupeomorpha, a group of bony fishes with one living order, the Clupeiformes, that contains some of the world's most numerous and economically important fishes.

"The Order of the British Empire is a living order and individuals cease to be a member when they die.

On 20 July 1998 Serbian police entered the part of town where they lived, ordered everyone out and set their houses on fire.

A lot of times, I feel like I have to spend some time living in order to act again".

She lived sales order to sales order.