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Amphibians evolved adaptations that allowed them to stay out of the water for longer periods.
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Amphibians and adaptations
Amphibians typically have a larval stage that lives in water but there are many different behavioural adaptations that have developed among species to bypass this necessity.
Amphibians and reptiles cope with heat loss by evaporative cooling and behavioral adaptations.
Amphibians in Costa Rica have acquired many adaptations for survival.
Amphibians and out
Amphibians must return to water to lay eggs, in contrast, reptiles-whose amniote eggs have a membrane ensuring gas exchange out of water and can therefore be laid on land-were better adapted to the new conditions.
Amphibians and water
Amphibians originally thrived in the marshes, sloughs, side-channels and oxbow cutoffs because of their warmer water, abundance of vegetation and nutrients, lower population of predators, and slower current.
* Amphibians, vertebrate animals of the Class Amphibia ( many of which live on land and breed in water )
Amphibians and fish may be immersed in water containing an anesthetic such as tricaine.
Amphibians in particular are able to take refuge in water or very wet mud.
Amphibians and for
Amphibians also use their skin for respiration and some small terrestrial salamanders rely entirely on this and have no lungs.
Amphibians, reptiles, and birds use the same orifice for excreting liquid and solid wastes, and for copulation and egg-laying ; this orifice is known as the cloaca.
* Societas Europaea Herpetologica Distribution Maps for European Reptiles and Amphibians
Amphibians developed forms of reproduction and locomotion and a metabolism better suited for life exclusively on land, becoming more reptilian.
Groups like The Amphibians & Freestyle Union laid the foundation for artists like Asheru, Wale and Low Budget to help put DC's hip hop scene on the map.
* Subotnick's The Double Life of Amphibians at the Internet Archive Avant Garde Project has FLAC files made from high-quality LP transcriptions ( originally from the Avant Garde Project ) available for free download.
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles ( SSAR ).
for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles with an introduction by P. E. Vanzolini
for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford ; with an introduction by P. E. Vanzolini
The species was considered monotypic with 12 subspecies until the early 1990s when it was elevated to full species status according to the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, in their official names list.
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles ; Missouri, 2003.
The zoo is currently planning a new zoo entrance and a new elephant management complex for the future, as well as some new additions to the Amphibians and Reptiles building.
Amphibians and .
Amphibians are members of the class Amphibia, whose living forms include frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians.
Amphibians are cold blooded vertebrates.
Amphibians have a urinary bladder and nitrogenous waste products are excreted primarily as urea.
Amphibians breathe by means of a pump action in which air is first drawn into the buccopharyngeal region through the nostrils.
Amphibians often eat the sloughed skin.
Amphibians have a skeletal system that is structurally homologous to other tetrapods, though with a number of variations.
Amphibians have a juvenile stage and an adult stage and the circulatory systems of the two are distinct.
Amphibians swallow their prey whole, with some chewing done in the oral cavities of some species, so they possess voluminous stomachs.
Amphibians possess a pancreas, liver and gall bladder.
Amphibians have two kidneys located dorsally, near the roof of the body cavity.
Amphibians usually swallow food whole but may chew it lightly first in order to subdue it.
Amphibians have soft bodies and thin skins, lack claws, defensive armour or spines and seem relatively helpless.
Amphibians also retain the fifth connecting vessel, so that the aorta has two parallel arches.
Amphibians were the dominant land vertebrates, of which one branch would eventually evolve into reptiles, the first fully terrestrial vertebrates.
Amphibians include the green toad, American toad, common tree frog, and the Cretan marsh frog.
Amphibians and reptiles have no ovarian medulla ; the central part of the ovary is a hollow, lymph-filled space.
Amphibians were diverse and common ; some were several meters long as adults.
Amphibians were the dominant tetrapods until the mid-Carboniferous, when climate change greatly reduced their diversity.
Amphibians have a three-chambered heart.
** The first known underwater diving club in Britain, " The Amphibians Club ", is formed in Aberdeen by Ivor Howitt ( who modified an old civilian gas mask ) and some friends.
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