Sentence examples for majority of reptiles from inspiring English sources

The majority of reptiles were probably diurnal (active during the day), leaving the darkness to the scampering of modest mammals.

Although patterns of growth are poorly documented for the majority of reptiles, most species probably follow a pattern of determinate, or asymptotic, growth as they mature.

It is clear from the above discussion that, although autosomal, the chicken Z chromosome has retained conserved synteny in the majority of reptiles, with the exception of Gekkonidae, where substantial genomic rearrangements may have contributed in an ancestral syntenic break, including coincidental homology between the sex chromosomes of G. hokouensis and chicken.

The time delay between fertilization and egg deposition (that is, egg laying) is poorly documented for the majority of reptile species.

I'm a reptile!" but in reality crocodiles and a vast majority of other reptiles do very little when the thermometer drops and their blood runs cold — except maybe die.

The majority of carnivorous reptiles have nonspecialized diets and feed on a variety of animals.

However, the majority of modern reptiles possess an ectothermic (cold-blooded) physiology.

While the majority of marine reptiles in the Canadian Fossil Discovery Center in Morden, Manitoba are 80 to 83 million years old, this specimen is believed to be 90 million years old.

These results indicate that Salmonella can be present in the majority of households keeping reptiles in Sweden even if the isolation rate from reptiles was found to be lower (49%).

In fact the vast majority of concepts—house, reptile, tree are mere adventitious collections of things that are formulated in response to practical needs, and thus cannot, however exact the results of the corresponding science, attain to truth or knowledge.

We collaborated with three major Slovenian importers of reptiles who agreed to submit all their dead reptiles for examination.