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So throughout vertebrates, the design of the brain stem is very similar to ours, which is one of the reasons why I think those other species have conscious minds like we do.
Believe it or not, these are the most abundant vertebrates on earth and many are so small that a dozen could fit in this one tube.
Flight within vertebrates has only evolved three times: once in the bats, once in the birds, and once in the pterodactyls.
And this is the weight of all air and land vertebrates.
Humans, livestock and pets are, now, 98 percent of the total world's mass of vertebrates on land and air.
You just need to look at your bellybutton that you share with other placental mammals, or your backbone that you share with other vertebrates, or your DNA that you share with all other life on earth.
So technically, all vertebrates are fishes, so technically, you and I are fish.
Here's a data point: 1.4 percent of the entire land surface is home to 40 percent of the species of higher plants, 35 percent of the species of vertebrates, and this 1.4 percent represents the 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world, and this 1.4 percent of the entire land surface already provides for 35 percent of the ecosystem services that vulnerable people depend on.
The first chordates gave rise to the first vertebrates.
The vertebrates came out of the sea, and here we are.
Clearly, human locomotion is more complex than cat and salamander locomotion, but at the same time, the nervous system of humans is very similar to that of other vertebrates.
Vertebrates like us have a rigid skeleton to support our bodies, with joints that allow us to move.
All mammals are vertebrates, meaning they have backbones.
But mammals are distinguished from other vertebrates by a number of shared features.
So changing or eliminating a population is practical only if that species has a fast reproductive cycle, like insects or maybe small vertebrates like mice or fish.
All vertebrates do, and each time a fish species starts to adapt to this dark, cold, cave environment, over many, many generations, they lose their eyes and their eyesight until the end up like an eyeless cavefish like this one here.
Your hypothalamus, common to all vertebrates, triggers your pituitary gland to secrete the hormone ACTH, making your adrenal gland shoot adrenaline into your blood.
It turns out we humans, like all vertebrates, have lots of olfactory receptors.
Finally, vertebrates made it onto land on a permanent basis, leading to alligator-like amphibians and saber-toothed protomammals.
Australia’s gastric brooding frog, Rheobatrachus, begins life in the female’s stomach, where it would, in all other vertebrates, be digested by enzymes and acid.
The information about Costa Rican deer ticks comes from an inventory of parasites of vertebrates in northern Costa Rica, but it is the only inventory of its kind ever undertaken.
First, the researchers looked for clues about how the tsetse, which feeds exclusively on the blood of vertebrates, identifies its host.
"All right then, my fine harpooner, if vertebrates several hundred meters long and proportionate in bulk live at such depths, their surface areas make up millions of square centimeters, and the pressure they undergo must be assessed in billions of kilograms.
They have been quite aptly defined as: "cold-blooded vertebrates with a double circulatory system, breathing through gills, and designed to live in water."