How to Use tetrapod in a Sentence

tetrapod

noun

• These include Panderichthys, a fish with a large tetrapod-like head and a muscular pair of front fins.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2010
• Our moon’s tides most likely played a role in evolution, shepherding the first plants and tetrapods from the salty marshes of the coasts and onto land.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2021
• The bite would have been the largest of any tetrapod (the animal group that includes mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians).
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
• At some point, four-legged tetrapods that had lived in the water some 300 million years ago decided to submerge themselves once again, perhaps to avoid predators.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• When this tetrapod was alive, neither threat existed yet.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
• Previous research had shown that HoxD13 is active in the developing tetrapod limb when the wrists and digits form.
  — John A. Long, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
• Here’s an unorthodox solution to slippery soap: Shape it like a tetrapod.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 22 May 2018
• Dasen and his colleagues also looked at a genetic transcription factor called Foxp1, located at the spinal cord in tetrapods.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• There’s Elginerpeton pancheni, an early tetrapod that lived outside the ocean sometime around 375 million years ago.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• In addition to the latter’s markings, the team found three different pathways marked by small footprints that probably belonged to smaller tetrapods that had waded through the water.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Multiple losses of opsin genes have occurred as tetrapods—a group including amphibians, reptiles, and mammals—have evolved.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
• This gave rise to the tetrapods, or four-limbed vertebrates, that included dinosaurs, land animals and eventually humans.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
• While most tetrapods — which includes all four-limbed, land-living vertebrates, such as frogs, turtles, hawks and humans — have five digits or fewer, the distant ancestors of amphibians, mammals, birds and reptiles used to have more.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Once ashore, these four-limbed vertebrates, called tetrapods, branched into an impressive range of animals: amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2017
• The exact species and classification have yet to be determined, but the fossil is a tetrapod -- meaning animal with four legs -- and could be an early ancestor of either reptiles or mammals.
  — Sherry Liang, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
• Image In land vertebrates, or tetrapods, walking is partly characterized by this left-right alternation as well as rhythms of extending and flexing.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• This tetrapod, dubbed Parmastega aelidae, looked similar to a crocodile, except its protruding eyes were on top of its head.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
• To help solve this mystery, scientists created a robot based off fossils of Orobates pabsti, a plant-eating tetrapod about 33 inches long (85 centimeters).
  — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2019
• An excavation exposed a wall of fossils there in 2016, during road construction, and led to this and a number of other discoveries, including the fossil of an early tetrapod, the massive fish’s likely prey.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Scientists had diagrammed the somewhat smooth distributions of other tetrapods—vertebrates descended from the earliest four-limbed creatures.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• But Eusthenopteron foordi, another stem tetrapod that comes after Paleospondylus, had paired fins and cranial development even in juveniles.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2022
• The importance of global parsimony and historical bias in understanding tetrapod evolution.
  — Darren Naish, Scientific American Blog Network, 7 July 2017

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024