Sentence examples for move on land from inspiring English sources

These fish are not close relatives of the sarcopterygian lineage that led to air-breathing land vertebrates, but have independently evolved limited abilities to move on land and/or breathe air.

North Korea's submarines are not up to that task (although it has recently paraded a launcher that can move on land), so its launch facilities would probably not survive for long in an all-out conflict with America and South Korea.

They have filmed the bizarre mudskipper fish, an amphibious creature that can move on land using its specially adapted limb-like fins.

Sandy Kawano and Richard Blob at Clemson University in South Carolina, US, filmed the animals and measured the pressures their semi-aquatic fins as they used them to move on land.

To understand how hatchlings move on land, researchers created FlipperBot (FBot for short), the world's first mechanical creature to illuminate how flippers can be used to walk on soft terrain.

They cannot pull their hind-flippers forward, and move on land by lunging, bouncing and wiggling while their fore-flippers keep them balanced.

Because they are able to turn their hind flippers forward, they can use all four limbs when moving on land.

Kawano, S. M. Evaluation of the functional capabilities of fins and limbs for moving on land: insights into the invasion of land by tetrapods PhD thesis, Clemson University (2014).

Students use their knowledge of adaptations for moving on land, through trees, in water and air to move their playing pieces.

"You haven't had the high-end tourists moving on land before," says Edward Larson, the author of "Evolution's Workshop," a history of the islands (Basic Books, 2001).

In addition, the creature had a neurovascular system in its snout similar to that seen in crocodiles, and a relatively short tail and skeletal features that mean it would have moved on land in a more upright stance than its close relatives – more akin to modern birds.