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Why did an entire sub-order of monkeys, the platyrrhine monkeys, end up in South America and nowhere else?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Why did an entire sub-order of monkeys, the platyrrhine monkeys, end up in South America and nowhere else?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The sub-order Myxophaga is mostly aquatic but limited to fast flowing, shallow stream habitats.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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The most accurate descriptions are at the level of sub-order.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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Three of the whales are Basilosaurids, the latest surviving group of archaeocete whales which are the earliest, now extinct, sub-order of whales, ancestors of the modern Mysticeti and Odontoceti whale families.
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The most primitive sub-order of beetles, Adephaga, has the most number of families that are truely aquatic, meaning that eggs and larvae both develop underwater.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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‘Lepidosteus’, ‘Polypterus’, and Sturgeon; and that a singular relation obtains between the older and the younger Fishes; the former, the Devonian Ganoids, being almost all members of the same sub-order as ‘Polypterus’, while the Mesozoic Ganoids are almost all similarly allied to
Essays 2007
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Thus the Devonian Ganoids, though almost all members of the same sub-order as
Essays 2007
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Evolved from the reptilian mccarthy-goebbels sub-order, the O'Reillysaurus exists in a primeval ooze where its small brain, in contrast to its massive, fat head and even larger ego, is fraught with an all-consuming paranoia that finds a fast-approaching imaginary asteroid, intent on casting an lethal Ice Age over Fox News, Christianity and Factor Gear, hiding behind every secular-progressive tar-pit.
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The order which includes it is a very extensive one, and it may be useful to add that it belongs to the sub-order _Carduaceæ_, or the Thistle family.
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