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  • If I should tell you as much about them as I have about the Building of a Bird, you would see that they are all built on what we call the Vertebrate plan of structure.

    Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

  • You remember, when we were talking about fishes and birds, we found that they both belong to the great group of animals called Vertebrate, from having a backbone made of many pieces beautifully fitted together.

    Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

  • It isn't often that one gets a laugh at the end of a paper in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, but there was a nice laugh at the end of this one.

    "Nothing remains. We could run when the rain slows." ellen_datlow 2009

  • Vertebrate marine animals, such as fish and seals, have a better ability to flee and are therefore not so easily trapped by mudflows or landslides.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • I did try to get some reading done, more of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us and a paper in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on the ankylosaurid Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus.

    2010, whether we like it or not. greygirlbeast 2010

  • I also read "Eothyris and Oedaleops: do these Early Permian synapsids from Texas and New Mexico form a clade?" in the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

    "I’m made of bones of the branches, the boughs, and the browbeating light..." greygirlbeast 2009

  • At the National Museum of Natural History, molluscs (and corals, annelids, etc.) belong to the Invertebrate Zoology Dept., while Vertebrate Zoology seems to be larger than IZ but represents far fewer species.

    Where are all the malacologists? AYDIN 2009

  • Vertebrate marine animals, such as fish and seals, have a better ability to flee and are therefore not so easily trapped by mudflows or landslides.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Over at Updates from the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab, there is an account, with pictures, of the unbelievable Pseudoserpente canuckistanensis, a legless mammal.

    Archive 2009-04-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Vertebrate marine animals, such as fish and seals, have a better ability to flee and are therefore not so easily trapped by mudflows or landslides.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

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