Sentence examples for skeletal adaptations from inspiring English sources

Skeletal adaptations such as long hind limbs and a strengthened pelvic girdle enable their agility and speed (up to 80 km [50 miles] per hour).

Students begin by comparing skeletal characters between humans and gorillas, and identifying the skeletal adaptations that permit either bipedalism or quadrupedalism.

No skeletal adaptations for maintaining buoyancy, such as skeletal lightening and hollow architecture, that are known to occur in nektonic and pseudoplanktonic crinoids, are observed.

Pelvic asymmetry has been thought to alter body mechanics and result in increased strain on bony and soft tissues possibly producing asymmetrical skeletal adaptations.

The remarkably preserved 165 million-year-old Agilodocodon scansorius from the Middle Jurassic period showed many skeletal adaptations for living in trees.

A docodontan mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic of China possesses swimming and burrowing skeletal adaptations and some dental features for aquatic feeding.

The most-extreme expression of that skeletal adaptation in living primates is seen in the modern gibbon family.

Osteocytes, former osteoblasts buried within bone, are thought to orchestrate skeletal adaptation to mechanical stimuli.

To successfully carry out this locomotive function, the bone tissue is equipped with a mechano-sensory system that facilitates the skeletal adaptation to loading.

Secondly, musculoskeletal forces related to running can induce skeletal adaptation and thus enhance bone strength.

Similarly, scenarios involving hypsilophodontids and pachycephalosaurids climbing trees to increase their feeding heights [ 122], while not impossible, are implausible owing to a lack of appropriate skeletal adaptation [ 139, 140].