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63) Swimmers
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Prehistoric zoobooks volume 4
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Studies the origin of animals with backbones, or vertebrates, as they evolved into the fishes of prehistoric seas and oceans.
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"The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature's most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive structure for all the remaining aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can see the body's fascinating underlying architecture. In this one-of-a-kind book, biologist and skeletal reconstructionist Steve Huskey lays bare the vertebrate skeleton, providing a guided tour of the nuanced differences among the many featured vertebrate...
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How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And with the aid of new techniques adn approaches across a range of fields - work spanning multiple levels of biological organization from DNA sequences to organs and the physiology and ecology of whole organisms...
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Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Bulletin volume 11, article 3
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"En este libro encontraréis una selección de más de 500 especies de vertebrados detalladamente catalogados e ilustrados a todo color. Se trata de una guía completa y exhaustiva que aporta información precisa sobre cada especie animal. Captura toda la belleza y la diversidad del mundo de los vertebrados con un diseño espectacular y visualmente impactante y atractivo."--Casadellibro.
"This guide gathers a selection of more than 500 species of...
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"Not much has been written about the women who have helped define and develop the field of vertebrate paleontology over the last 100 years. The paleontologist coauthors of this book aim to remedy this situation by offering an international collection of compelling stories about the discovery, collection, and study of fossil vertebrates done by women paleontologists"--
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"Covering both the internal and external incubation of offspring, this book provides a biology-rich survey of the natural history, ecology, genetics, and evolution of pregnancy-like phenomena. From mammals and other live-bearing organisms to viviparous reptiles, male-pregnant fishes, larval-brooding worms, crabs, sea cucumbers, and corals, the world's various species display pregnancy and other forms of parental devotion in surprisingly multifaceted...
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Vertebrates are one of the largest animal groups and it includes cartilaginous fish, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. What do they have in common? What is typical for their body? Are you shaking your head in confusion, telling yourself that you don't know? Shaking your head is a sign that you are a vertebrate. Because backbone and cranium are typical for them. Did you know that African ostriches run at speeds of up to 55 miles per hour,...
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