In the receding ice of northern Siberia, large mammoths—elephant-like animals representative of the last era, but unknown today—have come to the surface with even their skin and flesh preserved.
The trails of worms, the footprints of small salamander-like animals, and the fronds of ferns, mostly mascerated or wilted, are found delicately preserved in this slime.
Permian Age d~ River mud in which are preserved many impressions of ferns and cone-bearing plants, insect wings, raindrop pits and tracks of salamander-like animals.
Those invertebrates whose central nervous system is most concentrated at the cephalic end belong to the arachnid group, among which are included the various living scorpion-like animals, such as Thelyphonus, Androctonus, etc.
We have, therefore, two distinct possible positions for the genital ducts among the group of extinct scorpion-like animals, the one from the cephalic region to the operculum, and the other from the abdominal region to the operculum.
Herds of horse-like animals fed on the rich herbage of the meadows.
Herds of horse-like animals, about the size of Shetland ponies, fed on the meadows.
Herds of horse-like animals, one scarcely distinguishable from our common horse, grazed in the valleys, along with several species of deer.
A genus of shell-like animals similar to the nautilus, found in numerous fossil forms in Lower Silurian and the carboniferous strata.
The HYENA DOG (Canis pictus) does not belong to the hyenas proper, but to the dog-like animals of prey.
All the three are somewhat squirrel-like animals, but have long hind legs, bushy tail, very soft fur, and complete collar bones.
But the Fungi, like animals, live upon organic food, consisting of complicated combinations of carbon, which they receive from other organisms and assimilate.
Innumerable prawn-like animals of the Alpheidae and other families, and many kinds of Crabs, are found among living Corals.
These are somewhat hog-like animals, with elongated snouts, possessing four toes on their fore-feet, and three on the hinder ones.
We caught a great variety of shrimp-like animals; these little things when disturbed emitted a brilliant phosphorescent light.
We caught also many small insects, and some shrimp-like animals.
The lowest class of fish-like animals is that of the lancelets, the Leptocardii.
Many zoologists, indeed, do not include all the worms or worm-like animals in one branch, but consider them to form several distinct branches.
They feed on small crab-like animals, and on the marine unicellular animals and plants.
They are characteristic of the whole group of Amoeba-like animals, which are consequently called Rhizopoda, the root-footed.
This is the name given to another sub-family of Murine Rodents, a group which includes the Hamsters in the Old World as well as a large number of South American genera of Rat-like animals.
The difficulty is well emphasised by the fact that naturalists disagree most profoundly as to the relations of various genera of extinct Tapir-like animals.
This family comprises a number of small Deer-like animals, which are really in many points more related to the Pigs than to the true Deer.
We shall now proceed to describe more minutely the first of the two sub-orders of the Primates--the Lemur-like animals.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like animals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
