Sentence examples for near relatives from inspiring English sources

The lower jaw was dominated by the dentary bone; the other lower-jaw elements, characteristic of reptiles, were relatively reduced, as in mammals and their near relatives.

The mourning of the dead, especially by near relatives, has taken many forms.

The Kingstons reputedly favor intermarriage between near relatives, in order to keep their line pure.

But in those cases the victims, or their near relatives, were still alive.

The region is the land of the guanaco and its near relatives, the llama, alpaca, and vicuña.

His grandfather, father, and two other near relatives were killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.

It is something of an issue that working on dinosaurs and their near relatives draws in this group.

Near-relatives of the giant Sultan's Elephant, who ambled through the streets of London 18 months ago, these are no meek glove-puppets, but body puppets whose every gesture is free, individual, expressive.

This 125 million-year-old Cretaceous specimen was reported on by Anita Srikameswaran, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (www.post-gazette.com) on March 15 , 2007 and possesses a middle ear structure that is between mammals and near-relatives of mammals.

One factor that may have allowed Sinocastor to persist is that its population was semi-isolated from its European near-relatives by the Himalayan Mountain belt and associated arid zone [62].

Disease control patients were near-relatives of FAP patients who ultimately turned out not to have mutations in TTR.