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  2. When Nature Gets Weird: 50 Odd Facts That May Leave You ... - AOL

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    Snow leopards and other big cats also have skin markings to match their fur. ... #22 The Amphibian That Can Regrow Any Of Its Limbs. ... Breeding occurs all year round although it is most common ...

  3. Amphibian - Wikipedia

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    Reproductive success of many amphibians is dependent not only on the quantity of rainfall, but the seasonal timing. [87] In the tropics, many amphibians breed continuously or at any time of year. In temperate regions, breeding is mostly seasonal, usually in the spring, and is triggered by increasing day length, rising temperatures or rainfall.

  4. Tetrapod - Wikipedia

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    [66] [67] Amphibians must return to water to lay eggs; in contrast, amniote eggs have a membrane ensuring gas exchange out of water and can therefore be laid on land. Amphibians and amniotes were affected by the Carboniferous rainforest collapse (CRC), an extinction event that occurred around 307 million years ago. The sudden collapse of a ...

  5. Cat anatomy - Wikipedia

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    The short length of the digestive tract of the cat causes cats' digestive system to weigh less than other species of animals, which allows cats to be active predators. [31] While cats are well adapted to be predators they have a limited ability to regulate catabolic enzymes of amino acids meaning amino acids are constantly being destroyed and ...

  6. Limbless vertebrate - Wikipedia

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    Many vertebrates are limbless, limb-reduced, or apodous, with a body plan consisting of a head and vertebral column, but no adjoining limbs such as legs or fins. Jawless fish are limbless but may have preceded the evolution of vertebrate limbs, whereas numerous reptile and amphibian lineages – and some eels and eel-like fish – independently lost their limbs.

  7. Terrestrial animal - Wikipedia

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    The goat is a terrestrial animal.. Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, most spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g. platypus, most amphibians).

  8. 32 best aquarium pets that aren't fish - AOL

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    Bamboo Shrimp need stable water conditions, and they do best in well-established aquariums, like one of the best tropical fish tanks, that have lots of plants and places to hide. 16. Mystery Snails

  9. Vertebrate - Wikipedia

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    For instance, descendants of the first reptiles include modern reptiles, mammals and birds; the agnathans have given rise to the jawed vertebrates; the bony fishes have given rise to the land vertebrates; a group of amphibians, the labyrinthodonts, have given rise to the reptiles (traditionally including the mammal-like synapsids), which in ...