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Recent Examples of vertebrateEel evolution The study also provides insights into evolution, suggesting that early vertebrates might not have needed to develop entirely new neural circuits to move on land.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025 The only terrestrial vertebrates that both lived near and are believed to have survived the Chicxulub Impact are night lizards.—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 First, there were vertebrates like us, but also birds and other mammals.—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025 The blood-testing organs don’t measure water levels but rather the concentration of salt, whose healthy range lies at almost exactly the same concentration as that of the brackish intertidal water in which vertebrates first evolved (which is about one-third as salty as seawater).—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vertebrate
Neighbors welcome Elanco to The Valley Seven decades ago, Elanco spun off from drug company Eli Lilly to manufacture medicines for animals instead of humans, including drugs for dogs, cats, cattle, swine and poultry.
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Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
In fact, only 29 fatal incidents involving the animals have been recorded in North America since 1868.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
Chimpanzees seemed to accept Goodall as one of their own, and the public was fascinated by both her easy familiarity with the creatures as well as her groundbreaking discoveries that showed just how much chimps are like humans.
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Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
Whether your child becomes a fantastic creature, a spell-binding witch, or something more run-of-the-mill, their expression of pure imagination is the magic of Halloween.
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