Sentence examples for marine snake from inspiring English sources

Using a newly developed x-ray technique called synchrotron-radiation computed laminography, researchers probed details of the vestigial hind limbs of the ancient marine snake Eupodophis descouensi.

Hexanchiformes: Examples from this group include the cow sharks and frilled sharks, which somewhat resembles a marine snake.

Sea snake, any of more than 60 species of highly venomous marine snakes of the cobra family (Elapidae).

He discovered the snakes did fine once he put them in fresh water and began to wonder if the same was true of other marine snakes.

Most snakes have an odd number of rows across the body though certain species have an even number of rows e.g. Zaocys spp. In the case of some aquatic and marine snakes, the scales are granular and the rows cannot be counted.

Indeed, Figure 1 highlights the great overlap between Hct recorded in terrestrial and marine snakes.

Contrary to previous findings [9], [12], [13], [31], our study suggests that marine snakes display increased blood-oxygen stores.

With effects of Clade controlled, aquatic snakes had significantly lower Hct than their terrestrial counterparts, whereas marine snakes display significantly higher Hct (Table 2, Figure 2b).

Due to constraints of marine environments (versus shallower, freshwater environments), marine snakes rely on potentially deep (>80 m) and long (>1 h) active dives [4], [32].

Clearly, investigations on the role of the lung as an organ used for buoyancy regulation versus oxygen stores in marine snakes are needed.

However, this example does not allow robust conclusions about marine snakes in general, most notably because of the atypical ecology, morphology, and physiology of this lineage.