Sentence examples for terrestrial forms from inspiring English sources

Terrestrial forms live in burrows.

This is especially true of freshwater and terrestrial forms.

With the emergence of terrestrial forms, the availability of calcium regulation became equally significant.

Aquatic forms deposit as many as 400 eggs, terrestrial forms as few as 5 or 6.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the opening episode's terrestrial forms of terror prove far scarier than extraterrestrial ones.

Terrestrial forms are naturally absent from most oceanic islands, though the coastlines are usually visited by seals.

Two genera inhabit the Galapagos Islands: the marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus) and a terrestrial form (Conolophus).

Two genera inhabit the Galapagos Islands: the marine iguana and a terrestrial form.

Because bipedal locomotion is the terrestrial form of movement in the true brachiators, some researchers believe that the human species may have evolved from a protobrachiator.

The largest terrestrial form is the Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), an Alaskan grizzly bear that is even larger than the polar bear (Ursus maritimus).

Still, the existence of intermediate stages of water dependency, such as species that lay eggs close to water (e.g., in burrows) instead of in bodies of water, supports the hypothesis of an ordered and gradual evolution in the direction of a more terrestrial form of reproduction.