Sentence examples for their extant from inspiring English sources

The earliest fishes probably fed on detritus, and a sucking action is retained by their extant representatives (lampreys and hagfishes).

There are some which have good analogies with living species such as fossil deer or elephants where things are simple enough and it's reasonable to infer that fossil species were behaving in the same manner as their extant counterparts.

This group of ancient sperm whales is only represented by three species today (the sperm whale, the dwarf sperm whale, and the pygmy sperm whale), but the sperm whales of the Miocene were quite distinct from their extant cousins.

Different societies may differ considerably in their extant moral beliefs.

The Silurian fossils thus provide direct evidence for a similar reproductive mode as their extant relatives.

It particularly suits genome dissection of forest trees given their extant populations that are mostly undomesticated.

Their closest extant relatives are the sirenians (dugongs and manatees) and the hyraxes, with which they share the clade Paenungulata within the superorder Afrotheria.

No one has treated the three-fifths clause of the Constitution as overly precious after its renunciation, nor have the states dwelt upon their still extant constitutional bar from taxing interstate commerce as they collect monies from a sales excise imposed on goods produced outside of their jurisdiction; Section 1 Article 8 deserves to be considered in this light.

The Anilius + Tropidophiidae clade, also termed Amerophidia [ 20] after their exclusive extant presence in the New World (though, notably, the earliest total-group tropidophiids are known from Europe and North Africa in the late Eocene [ 21- 25]), is strongly supported by molecular data in this study, in agreement with previous phylogenomic analyses of snake phylogeny [ 1, 19, 26, 27].

The gradual global cooling after 50 Mya in the Eocene may have stimulated the early diversification of lethal amanitas into their major extant tropical to temperate clades after origination in the early Paleocene in Palaeotropical areas, whereas the climate deterioration at 33 Mya may have led to an elimination of tropical elements [ 103, 105].

(Buffology, as the show's fans refer to their still-extant cult, is also closely analyzed in academic circles).