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The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite ...
It consists of ADH amino acid sequences from the phyla Chordata (Classes Myxini, Actinopterygii, Elasmobranchii, Sarcopterygii, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia), Mollusca (Class Cephalopoda), ...
The Alcântara Formation, an important stratigraphic unit from the early Cenomanian of Brazil, was deposited under transitional (estuarine) conditions, and its fossil record includes fragmentary ...
Changes to the classification status of Queensland native wildlife made on 1 September 2024.
Common Name: Nutria (also: coypu, coypu rat, swamp beaver, nutria rat) Scientific Name: Myocastor coypus (also: Myopatamus bonariensis) Classification: Phylum or Division: Chordata Class: Mammalia or ...
Describe the issue Repeatmasker 4.1.6 does not correctly integrate taxa from Dfam 3.8 non-root databases (e.g. Viridiplantae - dfam38_full.5.h5) Reproduction steps running in docker for reproducibi ...
Common Name: Red-Eared Slider Turtle Scientific Name: Trachemys scripta elegans Classification: Phylum or Division: Chordata Class: Sarcopterygii Order: Testudines Family: Emydidae Subfamily: Emydinae ...
The primitive state of vertebrate lungs is unpaired, evolving to be truly paired in the lineage towards the tetrapods, increasing the pulmonary efficiency during the water-to-land transition.
Cranial endocasts of fossil and extant lungfish, analysed via tomography and novel principle component analyses designed for use with missing data, show that lungfish forebrain and inner ear regions ...
Due to its cartilaginous skeleton and the absence of paired appendages, Palaeospondylus gunni is most likely a member of Sarcopterygii, a group of lobed-finned fishes which are considered to be the ...