Project Praya Thread 5:
While vertebrates are the dominant terrestrial animals they are not the only rulers of Praya, the Skaravaitheres are a clade similar to vertebrates but evolving completely independent

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Forgot the the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body

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EMC_Phase1:clipart/iff-colour/lionking/nala8.iff

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Today is the only day you may perceive me. I’m a furry artist, software dev, and invertebrate enthusiast ! (they/he)

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"Neotropical fish alone make up 10% of all vertebrates on Earth."
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New paper: Khok Pha Suam locality in Thailand (Manitkoon, 2022) yielding numerous Aptian-Albian partial vertebrate assemblages, improving our knowledge of the diversity of Early Cretaceous vertebrate faunas in Southeast Asia.

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Mammal reveal, meet the Gomble, a buckchisel tooth multituberculate that lives a generalist omnivorous lifestyle with a diet mainly consisting of invertebrates like eusocial insects https://t.co/LNtk3AV14W

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Your ancestors were (very likely) four eyed freaks. There's evidence among the earliest vertebrates of two "optical" eyes, and two parietal eyes that sensed light/dark states and secreted hormones appropriately.

One of them "became" your brain's pineal gland.

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Auroramamongus longirostris is a medium sized neoamongoid that lives in cuba and the carribean islands. it specializes in rooting up insect colonies and using its filimented arm to rake up the invertebrates.

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Ichthyornis has a peculiar sternum with highly crossed coracoid sulci. Skeletal asymmetry, while uncommon in vertebrates, it is challenging for retrodeformation. However, using our new workflow we were able to reconstruct the complete sternum including the asymmetrical parts 10/n

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A scifi piece from back in 2011 of an alien species on another world. Based on invertebrate biology.

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Alright now I know you vertebrate people are just making stuff up. I learned in MIDDLE SCHOOL that's all one bone and it's a SKULL

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Downtown diet: new Evidence Synthesis article in investigates the impact of increased urbanization on the diets of vertebrate predators https://t.co/Zr4QbfAYoR

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what better to draw for than the invertebrate literally called the sexy shrimp

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