Sentence examples for the extant forms from inspiring English sources

All 17 extinct lemurs were larger than the extant forms, some weighing as much as 200 kg, and are thought to have been active during the day.

All 17 extinct lemurs were larger than the extant forms, including the largest living lemurs, the indri (Indri indri) and diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema), which weigh up to 9.5 kg.

While The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig appears to be the quintessential Ulster Cycle story in theme and narrative, there are certain unusual elements of the extant forms which suggest it may have a more satiric quality, parodying the heroic genre of the Ulster Cycle.

Elucidation of their taxonomic affinity is difficult because Vaucheria-like characteristics have most likely evolved in these extinct Proterozoic lineages independently of those seen in the extant forms of the genus Vaucheria (Xanthophyceae).

This suggests that a CYTH domain was present in the last universal common ancestor of all extant life forms and the extant forms are in part vertically inherited from this ancestral form.

An unavoidable drawback, however, is that typically the extant forms are highly derived and disparate with the result that the natures of common ancestors are often matters for unconstrained speculation.

The fossil skulls examined fell outside the two extant forms in the craniometric analysis.

Finally, a reference AtDt genome is not yet available, although the draft reference genomes of G. raimondii (D5) and G. arboreum (A2), the putative extant form of the contributor of the Dt and At genomes of the cultivated tetraploid cotton species, respectively, have recently been sequenced (Paterson et al. 2012; Wang et al. 2012b; Li et al. 2014).

The enactment of the German Civil Code in 1900 put an end to the application of extant forms of law derived from the Justinian codes in most European states.

The data presented here show how conservation strategies should be implemented to protect the critically endangered wild camel, as it is the last extant form of the wild tribe Camelina.

There are five pairs of sub-chelate appendages in stomatopods, the second of the series being the largest (at least in extant forms), while in Thylacocephala the last of three pairs is the largest.