Pakicetids were classified as cetaceans mainly based on the structure of the auditory bulla, which is formed from the ectotympanic bone only.

Pakicetids have long thin legs, with relatively short hands and feet which suggest that they were poor swimmers.

Pakicetids could hear under water, using enhanced bone conduction, rather than depending on tympanic membrane like most land mammals.

As Cetacea, Pakicetidae precede the whales and dolphins in transition from land.

Compared to family Pakicetidae and Ambulocetidae, Remingtonocetidae was a diverse family found in north and central Pakistan, and also western India.

The family is believed to have diverged from the more terrestrial Pakicetidae.

* Use of thrice, meaning " three times ", is common in Pakistani English.

The Aravalli Range ( Aravali ) literally meaning ' line of peaks ', is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northwest to southwest across Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

In contrast, Muslims living in West Punjab ( Pakistani Punjab ) use the usual Muslim greeting " Assalam-o-alaikum " ( peace on you, and the other replies " waa alaikum assalaam " meaning peace on you too ), and Punjabi Hindus use ' Namaskar ' or ' Namaste '.

Although the meaning is not explained, one can assume the green part would represent the Muslim minority in otherwise Hindu state, something like the Pakistani flag does with their minorities.

All whales ( great and small ) are listed in CITES Appendices, meaning that international trade in them and products derived from them is very limited.

Birdsong, singing apes, and the songs of whales all display phonological syntax, combining units of sound into larger structures devoid of enhanced or novel meaning.

The name Valsörarna is of Swedish origin, roughly meaning " the islands of whales.

The religious quest is often intense and deep, and there are students on every campus who are seriously wrestling with the most profound questions of meaning and value.

Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.

Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

Further research in the meaning of crises as experienced by the consumers of traditional social casework services -- including attempts to develop a typology of family structures, crisis problems, reaction mechanisms, and differential treatment approaches -- and the establishment of new experimental programs are imperative social needs which should command the best efforts of caseworkers in collaboration with community planners.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

Thus his persistence values for some stem frequencies per meaning are: stem identical in 8 languages, 100% ; ;

To insure uniformity in the meaning of national law, however, state interpretations are subject to Supreme Court review.

The variable costs alone are assigned to the different units of freight traffic as representing `` long-run out-of-pocket costs '' -- a term with a meaning here not distinctly different from that of the economist's `` long-run marginal costs ''.

Adolescents have a much-discussed tendency to polarize ideas and values, to perceive things as `` either-or '', black or white -- nuances of meaning are relatively unimportant.

In the adult world, there are a number of rather general and diffuse sources of ideological diffusion that further compound the adolescent's search for meaning during this particular identity crisis.

Obviously what we are confronted with here is the identification of `` professional '' with narrow skills and specialization, the effective servicing of a client, rather than responsiveness to the wider and deeper meaning and associations of one's work.

The order Caudata ( from the Latin cauda meaning " tail ") consists of the salamanders, elongated, low-slung animals that mostly resemble lizards in form, though this is a symplesiomorphic trait and the two groups are no more closely related than salamanders are to mammals.

As a group, agnostids are isopygous, meaning that their pygidium is similar in size and shape to their cephalon.

Members of the family are usually perennial herbs with sword-shaped unifacial leaves ; the inflorescence is a spike or panicle of solitary flowers, or forms a monochasial cyme or rhipidium ( meaning that the successive stems of the flowers follow a zig-zag path in the same plane ); and the flower has only three stamens, each opposite to an outer tepal.

With this, the perspective of the author is removed from the text, and the limits formerly imposed by the idea of one authorial voice, one ultimate and universal meaning, are destroyed.

It is this distinction between producing a written work and producing the interpretation or meaning in a written work that both Barthes and Foucault are interested in.

In its pathological form, spiritual anxiety may tend to " drive the person toward the creation of certitude in systems of meaning which are supported by tradition and authority " even though such " undoubted certitude is not built on the rock of reality ".

The real numbers are uniquely picked out ( up to isomorphism ) by the properties of a Dedekind complete ordered field, meaning that any nonempty set of real numbers with an upper bound has a least upper bound.

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

Both are connected with the Proto-Indo-European root * ank -, meaning " to bend " or " bow ".

They can be obtained analytically, meaning that the resulting orbitals are products of a polynomial series, and exponential and trigonometric functions.

The disadvantage of computer anagram solvers, especially when applied to multi-word anagrams, is their poor understanding of the meaning of the words they are manipulating.

The order Dasyuromorphia ( meaning " hairy tail ") comprises most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the recently extinct thylacine.

Baryonyx (; Greek: βαρύς / barys meaning ' heavy ' and ὄνυξ / onyx meaning ' claw ' or ' nail ') is a genus of carnivorous saurischian dinosaur first discovered in clay pits just south of Dorking, England, and later reported from fossils found in northern Spain and Portugal.

Rajasaurus ( meaning " king " or " kingly lizard ") is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurian theropod dinosaur with an unusual head crest.

They have three pairs of lower front incisors, which would usually suggest evolution from the order Dasyuromorphia, which consists of carnivorous marsupials ; however, the bandicoot's middle two digits are syndactylous, meaning they are joined together except for the claw.

Liopleurodon (; meaning ' smooth-sided teeth ') is a genus of large, carnivorous marine reptile belonging to the Pliosauroidea, a clade of short-necked plesiosaurs.