Sentence examples for terrestrial creatures from inspiring English sources
The phrase "terrestrial creatures" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to living beings that inhabit land as opposed to aquatic or aerial environments. Example: "The study focused on the behavior and adaptation of terrestrial creatures in various ecosystems."
"Monsters vs. Aliens" cheerfully converts the two major sources of cinematic terror — invaders from outer space and inhuman, ungodly terrestrial creatures — into wacky, goofy, familiar figures.
What, after all, could be more fundamental to our existence as corporeal, terrestrial creatures than the fluctuations of the atmosphere through which we move?
Scientists investigating an abandoned quarry in Canada have found what appear to be the oldest known footprints of terrestrial creatures -- footlong critters resembling modern bugs that crawled from the sea onto land and left tracks in sandy dunes.
In March A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times that movie "cheerfully converts the two major sources of cinematic terror — invaders from outer space and inhuman, ungodly terrestrial creatures — into wacky, goofy, familiar figures".
The findings, just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help to solve the mystery of how insects and other terrestrial creatures detect and respond to electric fields.
Toads are mostly terrestrial creatures but when they mature at the age of about three they return in early spring to the body of water in which they were born to spawn.
Man is the climax of this creative distillation: a moving, living, terrestrial creature created in God's image.
The finding is consistent with current thinking about Ichthyostega, that despite its limbs it was more of an aquatic than a terrestrial creature.
Roughly 400 million years ago, an ancient lobe-finned fish left its watery habitat to become the first four-limbed terrestrial creature.
But a study published online today in Science shows that the 15-meter-long Spinosaurus (shown in this artist's reconstruction) had adaptations to life both in the water and on land, suggesting that the fierce beast was more of a danger to fish than to any terrestrial creature.
Without any trace of ordinary human encounters left (since 2006 even Israeli journalists are barred from entering the Gaza Strip), Gazans have become abstract, almost extra-terrestrial, creatures.
