Therapsids and archosaurs were the chief terrestrial vertebrates during this time.

And this is the weight of all air and land vertebrates.

Skeleton Shark skeletons are very different from those of bony fish and terrestrial vertebrates.

Humans, livestock and pets are, now, 98 percent of the total world's mass of vertebrates on land and air.

The Dutch left Mauritius in 1710, but by then the dodo and most of the large terrestrial vertebrates there had become extinct.

10,000 years ago at the dawn of agriculture, human population, plus livestock and pets, was approximately a tenth of one per cent of the terrestrial vertebrae landmass.

The inner portion of the neural plate (along the midline) is destined to become the central nervous system (CNS), the outer portion the peripheral nervous system (PNS).

And those are the dry land species.

True land plants arose, leafless at first.

Live birds are also taken and occasionally reptiles and amphibians.

All across most land masses.

Ticks transmit the organism to vertebrates primarily by their bites.

In vertebrates the concentration is slightly lower, and nearly all vertebrate tissue and body fluids have been found to contain lithium ranging from 21 to 763 ppb.

Almost all extant arachnids are terrestrial.

Wheeled vehicles steer by angling their front or rear wheels.

The cornea is the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.

Culicoides , Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) , and Leptoconops suck vertebrate blood.

As such, vertebrates take their name from the vertebrae that compose the vertebral column.

That means that us terrestrials occupy a minority.

Some species are partially terrestrial, such as baboons and patas monkeys, and a few species are fully terrestrial, such as geladas and humans.

Vertebrate blood is bright red when its hemoglobin is oxygenated and dark red when it is deoxygenated.

On people with proportionate bodies, the waist is the narrowest part of the torso.

Across the landscapes of Earth were dotted these giant mushrooms.

Alex Steffen Exactly, this is a landmine detecting flower.

Bart Weetjens How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

Elephants are the largest land animals alive today.

Elephants are the world's largest land animals.

This was one of the largest land empires in history.

Caxias was appointed commander in chief of the Brazilian land forces.

They're in The Guinness World Book of Records again for being the vertebrate growth champion of the world.

It also stores iodine, and may be a precursor of the vertebrate thyroid gland.

Many modern diseases, even epidemic diseases, started out as zoonotic diseases.

These are all landlubbing animals. There's a couple of choices.

I quit my job to focus on the real world problem landmines.

Hong Kong has two licensed terrestrial broadcasters ATV and TVB.

Bones and cartilage Bone Bones are rigid organs that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates.

Structure The phalanges are the bones that make up the fingers of the hand and the toes of the foot.

The jejunum () is the second part of the small intestine in humans and most higher vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles, and birds.

Phagocytes are important throughout the animal kingdom and are highly developed within vertebrates.

Growth hormone (GH or HGH), also known as somatotropin or somatropin, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals.

Think about this these are the largest and strongest land animals on Earth.

Enjoy a modern ski lift, four downhill slopes and two ski tows.

Endemic land animals have been the most affected by introduced species.

Land mines and grenades can be detonated prematurely by shooting them.

The reconstruction was displayed in Berlin at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology.