Other animals, such as lungfish and tortoises, burrow into the mud and estivate to survive. From Wordnik.com. [Mission Of Honor]
The lungfish-tetrapod split is rather well documented. From Wordnik.com. [Panderichthys rhombolepis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A couple that occur to me are lungfish and mudskippers. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution Weekend -- 2010 - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Modern Coelacanths and lungfish were available to check this yarn. From Wordnik.com. [Panderichthys rhombolepis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The fact of evolution is no reason at all not to preserve the lungfish. From Wordnik.com. [Lungfish petition - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A tv show said that a lungfish "is on it's way to becoming a land animal". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Then Trent transformed them both to lungfish and they flopped into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
The Management Consultant gave him a look that only a lungfish could have copied. From Wordnik.com. [The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]
In other words, it can pass neither the “onion test” nor the “lungfish test”. From Wordnik.com. [Another unintelligent move - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The fossils, however, are unequivocal: lungfish are the extant sister taxon to tetrapods. From Wordnik.com. [Panderichthys rhombolepis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
We also find out that - like the African lungfish - the Creature has both lungs and gills. From Wordnik.com. [Custom anthologies!] Reference
The lungfish survives as a species because there has not been better competition for its niche. From Wordnik.com. [Kicking the Legs Out From Under the Willfully Ignorant « Whatever] Reference
They feed in muddy waters, preying on lungfish, and nest on the ground, producing only two eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Graham Hill: The Funny Lines We Draw Between Cute & Ugly Animals] Reference
This prompts me to ask, what about the other sarcopterygians, namely coelacanths and dipnoid lungfish?. From Wordnik.com. [3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
“The lungfish, like every other group of fish that I know, have their origins firmly based on nothing.”. From Wordnik.com. [Random Nonsense - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Not surprisingly such an efficient mechanism is widespread and found in most vertebrates from lungfish onwards. From Wordnik.com. [Reactions to Kitzmiller decision continue - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Along the way, you hear the screams of the tiny lungfish saying things like 'Oh no, he's headed for the orphanage!'. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Psychonauts] Reference
The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish. From Wordnik.com. [Paris Japonica: Researchers Claim Simple White Flower Has World's Longest Genome] Reference
When he looked back in the soft twilight it was hard to see the forms struggling like huge lungfish up onto their new home. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
But none of those ideas demonstrate to me how those giraffes, or lungfish, or moths came from or became “something else”. From Wordnik.com. [Kicking the Legs Out From Under the Willfully Ignorant « Whatever] Reference
For one level, you enter not as a boy, but as a giant much larger than the lungfish inhabitants of the city of Lungfishopolis. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Psychonauts] Reference
There is now an online petition to save the Australian lungfish you can read more about the threatened lungfish here, here, and here. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: August 2006 Archives] Reference
Still others 3 would divorce modern lungfish from porolepiforms proper, which renders your synapomorphies moot, and Kenichthys irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [Panderichthys rhombolepis - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But the lungfish conspicuously doesn't have a wrist. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
Tiktaalik's fin seems to bear a much closer relationship to is the lungfish. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
The most recent guess, prosaic as it may be, is that the buru was a species of giant lungfish. From Wordnik.com. [Doug's Darkworld] Reference
Yet while modern lungfish exist in freshwater environments, the Rhinodipterus lived in the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
The can was opened, the cylindrical mold of dried mud delicately picked away, the lungfish removed. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
So if Tiktaalik "presages" anything, perhaps it's the lungfish -- not a tetrapod: Were one to start with a. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
The fact that the human genome is shorter than some, such as the lungfish, should not have surprised anyone. From Wordnik.com. [physicsworld.com: all content] Reference
Last December a lungfish from a pond in British East Africa was placed in a large tin can filled with wet mud. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
Stephen Robertson has delivered a stern warning to lungfish living in Wivenhoe Dam: If you don't love it, leave. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
The new species of lungfish, known as Rhinodipterus, was found in the Gogo formation in northern Western Australia. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
And given its non-tetrapod, fish-like morphology, and lungfish are of virtually no use in explaining the origin of limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
Barramundi, lungfish, yellowbelly, bass and mullet were found in the nets near Bundaberg after a passerby tipped off authorities. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
A member of the Save the Mary River group showed Mr Garrett a life-sized replica of the lungfish, which he politely acknowledged. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Professor Jean Joss, one of his supporters who was there to greet him, said building a dam would "push them (lungfish) into extinction". From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Clement said that a number of features found in modern lungfish that are important to its air-gulping behaviour were found in the fossil. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
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