You Changelings are becoming moreAmphibian every day and less Human.
After a few shocks Pierre admitted he was the foster-son of the Amphibian King and that, incidentally, Lusine was his foster-sister.
In both lizard and amphibian the ultimate cause is an origin from fishes, in which such arches are obviously necessary.
The step from these to the lowest amphibian reptiles is so small, that some have classed the lepidosiren among amphibians instead of fishes.
No one doubts that the air-breathing organ of an amphibian is a true lung; yet we have traced all the gradations between it and the air-bladder of a fish.
On the contrary, they were fishes so closely connected by many characters with amphibian reptiles, that we hardly know whether to call some of them reptilian fishes, or fish-like reptiles.
Fishes first appeared in the Devonian and Upper Silurian in very reptilian or rather amphibian forms.
In comparing the ecological differences in the amphibian assemblages in the three major habitats, the most obvious difference is the great percentage of arboreal species in the rainforest as compared with savanna and scrub forest.
From the above analysis of ecological distribution we may see that the rainforest provides a variety of habitats for amphibians and that these habitats are suitable for amphibian life throughout the year.
Composition of the Fauna The amphibian fauna of the lowlands of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec consists of 36 species definitely recorded from the area.
The amphibianfauna of the lowlands of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec consists of 16 genera and 36 species.
This group includes six species, or 17 per cent of the amphibian fauna of the isthmus.
During the dry season in the scrub forest there is essentially no amphibian activity; an occasional Rana pipiens may be seen along a river, or a Bufo marinus may be seen at night.
In the course of these climatic shifts, tropical environments and their amphibian inhabitants seem to have survived in the isthmian region.
This group includes 19 species, or 53 per cent of the total amphibian fauna.
The rainforest presents an environment noticeably different from the other two and has a different amphibian fauna.
Over to the west, a mile or more from the island, the burning amphibian sent its tower of thick black smoke mushrooming skyward.
The amphibian which he was driving nosed into a long gliding arc toward the angry whitecaps of the Bay of Florida, a thousand feet below.
Then with a final pull he stalled her, the heel of the step made contact with the top of a whitecap and amid a cloud of spray the amphibian skimmed ahead on the water.
Careful not to stall her, with his eyes on the water just ahead he allowed the nose to come gradually up until the amphibian was in level flight.
They would then make for the harbor, take his amphibian or one of the others moored in the little bay and fly away.
A sharp flipper turn brought the little amphibian on a compass course slightly west of north.
Then with a vigorous burst of the engine, he swung round to port and sent the amphibian hurtling into the harbor.
Bill thought he could just discern the first outlines of the big trees; then all was dark, and the amphibian roared on into the maw of black night.
Losing their balance as the amphibian nosed over, the gangsters were hurled backwards by the second maneuver and landed in a sprawling heap by the door, and along the cabin aisle.
Bill pushed forward the stick, at the same time he cut his gun and the Loening amphibian he was piloting shot downward.
This time, instead of going down toward the lagoon and the dock where the amphibian lay moored, they turned off on a side road.
The amphibianis here, all right," affirmed the Seminole.
Even this small burst of speed caused the amphibian to bury its nose in the combers; and all but foundered her under a torrent of sea water.
Then he leveled off and after a slight bank to port, headed the bigamphibian due east.
As the frontlines advanced, succeeding waves of amphibian tractors will carry the troops further inland.
Two amphibian tractor battalions and an armored amphibian battalion would carry the assault waves to shore.
As the amphibian tractors circled (about 0615) near the line of departure, a flight of attack aircraft from the Wasp drowned out the whine of the amtrac engines and whirled up clouds of fire and dust, obscuring the landing beaches ahead.
He reorganized the defensive perimeter into 10 sectors for better control, giving the engineer, pioneer, and amphibian tractor battalions sectors along the beach.
The following 1st Marines were able to cross the Ilu on a bridge the engineers had hastily thrown up with an amphibian tractor bracing its middle.
When the 5th Marines entered the jungle from the beachhead, and had to cross the steep banks of the Ilu River, 1st Marine Division engineers hastily constructed a bridge supported by amphibian tractors.
The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
She felt safe, knowing that their amphibian plane could land on the water and float.
The island was narrow at this end and soon they were looking straight down upon a sheltered cove where the boys had landed and saw the amphibian floating on the water.
She made a long dive which brought her amphibian into the water at the near side of the island.
It coughed, it wheezed, it sputtered but at the same time the amphibian taxied over the smooth blue waters and took to the air.
The amphibian tanks bogged down at 1045 and were unable to catch up with the assault troops during the rest of the day.
Since the type of equipment loaded had been selected for the Yap operation, amphibian vehicles were favored over wheeled vehicles.
Amphibian Tank Battalion were to deliver harassing fires on the hill until 1030 the following day.
Earlier, at 1430, Company K had made a reconnaissance in amphibian tractors from Capoocan to a point just west of Pinamopoan.
The 728th Amphibian Tractor Battalion found many demolition charges abandoned in the plane.
At this point LVT's of the 826th Amphibian Tractor Battalion hauled the supplies, through rice paddies churned into waist-deep morasses, to Sugud, three miles south of Carigara.
Upon receiving its mission, a platoon from Company A of the 776th Amphibian Tank Battalion moved over water toward Camp Downes to secure information on the dispositions of the Japanese.
Ten minutes later one of these aircraft crash-landed in the water about twenty-five yards offshore in the area of the 728th Amphibian Tractor Battalion, which was about two miles south of Rizal and about three miles north of Tarragona.
In the afternoon a platoon of amphibian tractors and another of amphibian tanks were sent to the aid of the battalion, and engineers from the 13th Engineer Battalion constructed temporary bridges over the river when necessary.
The countless thousands of green men released from the buildings whose walls had vanished under the shells of the invaders had poured forth to make the amphibian city a chaos of madness.
You know that amphibian city is almost impregnable because humans can hardly live long enough under the water to get into it, let alone fight under water as the frog-men can.
Its round opening yawned in the looming wall ahead, and Norman saw the Rala craft, reduced to scores in number, hurtling into it, to rouse all the forces of the great amphibian city.
The larger one had gone after the beachedamphibian and brought it and Paula on to the city.
So the Ralas have ruled from this impregnable amphibian city.
Long ago the Ralas left all their other cities to build this one great amphibian city at the sea's center.
The accidental transportal of anamphibian from the mainland to an island is therefore almost inconceivable.
Thus we are told that in the year 1699 one of the Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, procured Frog's spawn from England in order to add that amphibian to the Irish fauna.
The Towle TA-3 amphibian flew beautifully, but not for long.
At this time the amphibian was beginning to become popular for intercity flying, especially around the Great Lakes region as all of the major cities were located on the waterfront.
In another half minute the wheels had struck and the amphibian was slowing up in its forward thrust.
At that distance from civilization it would be next to impossible for it to be salvaged and in consequence the costlyamphibian would prove a total loss.
They struck with a great splash and the impetus almost sufficed to carry the amphibian to the outer edge of the miniature wharf, suitable only for small boats.
He did, however glance swiftly ahead toward the spot where in all probability, barring further accidents, the amphibian would be apt to make contact.
The wonderful up-to-date amphibian began to move down the slight decline with constantly augmented speed until, having reached the desired maximum the pilot lifted his craft and away they soared.
XXIV READY TO START A splash, a short run upstream and the amphibian was riding the little waves like a duck.
But it is not clear that he considered the development of the amphibian to be a repetition of its ancestral history.
He recognised that an amphibian in its development passed through a stage when it was in all essentials similar to a fish, and he saw in this visible transformation a picture of the evolutionary transformation.
Defn: The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
Defn: The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
Defn: Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidæ, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs.
The fourth new amphibian Labyrinthodont he appropriately names Keraterpeton, a singular salamandroid-looking form, but minute as compared with the other associated genera.
The specimens consist of fish, insects, and amphibian reptiles.
A huge amphibian plane was hoisted in sections from the hold and mechanics started to assemble it.
The individual Amphibian tells us the past history of the higher groups; once they had gills--but growing older, they lost them.
Amphibian larvae; we should require an enlarged diagram of an earlier stage, to show the gills, which are external and projecting at first, but afterwards are overgrown by the skin with the exception of an orifice on each side.
Camp from a Pennsylvanian lagoon-deposit in Anderson County, Kansas, has yielded in the laboratory a skeleton of the small amphibian Hesperoherpeton garnettense Peabody (1958).
Left forelimb, showing characters of both a crossopterygian fin and an amphibian foot.
The shaft is longer and narrower than would be anticipated in a primitive amphibian limb (cf.
In addition to this remarkable combination of crossopterygian and amphibian characters, Hesperoherpeton is specialized in certain features of the skull.
The appendicular skeleton of the Permian embolomerous amphibian Archeria.
An embolomerous amphibian in the Garnett fauna (Pennsylvanian) of Kansas.
The skull is of the characteristic Amphibian type (fig.
The Amphibian group of the Labyrinthodonts, which was so extensively developed in the Trias, appears to have become extinct, no representative of the order having hitherto been detected in rocks of Jurassic age.
Some follow the Amphibian nomenclature, and unite the ischium and pubis into one bone, which is then termed ischium, when the prepubis is termed the pubis, and regarded as removed from the acetabulum.
This metamorphosis has been held to separate the amphibian type from the reptile because no existing reptile develops gills or undergoes a metamorphosis.
The New Zealand Hatteria has the lungs of this cellular type, though rather resembling the amphibian than the Crocodile.
The amphibian brain only differs from the lizard type in degree; and differences between lizards' and amphibian brains are less noticeable than between the other orders of reptiles.
The amphibian sometimes sheds the gills, and leaves the water to live on land.
Yet the character may not be more important as a ground for classification than the community of gills and lungs in the fish and amphibian is ground for putting them together in one natural group.
It has been collected from sea level to 2800 meters, the greatest altitudinal range of any amphibian in Michoacan.
Since the amphibianfauna of the Tepalcatepec Valley has been better sampled than that of the coast, I suspect that if Gastrophryne occurred in the Tepalcatepec Valley, I would have found it there.
Here the larger drainage streams give access across this amphibian belt to the solid land behind.
Neither influence can wholly exclude the other in this amphibian belt, for the coast remains the intermediary between the habitable expanse of the land and the international highway of the sea.
In low-shored estuaries like those of northern Brittany and northwestern Alaska, this amphibian girdle of the land expands to a width of four miles, while on precipitous coasts of tideless sea basins it contracts to a few inches.
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