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Recent Examples of vertebrate
Estimated to exceed 120 feet in length and weigh around 69 tons, this colossal saurpod offered new insight into the size limits of terrestrial vertebrates.
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Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
Birds, the warm-blooded and feathered vertebrates, are being used to put romantic partners to the test.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
The species feeds by relying on symbiotic bacteria to break down fats inside the bones of large vertebrates, like whales.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025
This suggests that a role in the development of this region for hox genes is the ancestral state, and was present prior to the limbed vertebrates diverging from fish.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
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Los Angeles County animal services officers recovered approximately 200 ducks from a box truck in Palmdale on Wednesday morning.—
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The shelter also had problems serving the existing community, taking in fewer animals due to difficulties moving them through adoption or rescue, and placing greater emphasis on caring for sick or injured animals.—
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Each envelope containing the clue was inside a box filled with some frightful creature — rats, snakes, a tarantula, millipedes, and cockroaches.—
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In a first, researchers found a chunk of meat from a woolly rhinoceros — a creature similar in size to modern white rhinoceros, but with a shaggy coat of hair — preserved inside the stomach of one of the pups.—
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If your kids enjoy watching critters chow down, be sure to consult the feeding schedules at the various habitats.—
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Never place your luggage on the hotel room floor, bed, or furniture, as these surfaces may harbor bed bugs and other unwelcome critters.—
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“Vertebrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertebrate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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