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... remarkable types of structure obtaining among the higher vertebrates . It will be found that while some of the Essays form a continuous series , others are totally unconnected with those to which they stand in juxtaposition . While ...
... remarkable types of structure obtaining among the higher vertebrates . It will be found that while some of the Essays form a continuous series , others are totally unconnected with those to which they stand in juxtaposition . While ...
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... remarkable , and looked something like a flattened and expanded ploughshare . It has , indeed , been suggested that the reason why these earliest fishes possessed such an extraordinary strong coat - of - mail is that the waters of the ...
... remarkable , and looked something like a flattened and expanded ploughshare . It has , indeed , been suggested that the reason why these earliest fishes possessed such an extraordinary strong coat - of - mail is that the waters of the ...
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... remarkable for their habit of inflating their bodies into a balloon - like shape . In these fishes , as is shown by a preparation in one of the cases already alluded to in the Natural History Museum , the body is protected by a coating ...
... remarkable for their habit of inflating their bodies into a balloon - like shape . In these fishes , as is shown by a preparation in one of the cases already alluded to in the Natural History Museum , the body is protected by a coating ...
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... remarkable for the great variety of the kinds of armour which they have displayed in the course of a long career . The Crocodiles offer the best living examples of reptiles with a plate - armour , recalling that of some fishes . In ...
... remarkable for the great variety of the kinds of armour which they have displayed in the course of a long career . The Crocodiles offer the best living examples of reptiles with a plate - armour , recalling that of some fishes . In ...
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... remarkable and unique arrangement has entailed the further curious modifica- tion that the shoulder - blade and haunch - bones are * See Chapter VII . placed inside the ribs , instead of externally to them ANIMAL LIFE PAST AND PRESENT .
... remarkable and unique arrangement has entailed the further curious modifica- tion that the shoulder - blade and haunch - bones are * See Chapter VII . placed inside the ribs , instead of externally to them ANIMAL LIFE PAST AND PRESENT .
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