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  • It seems to be a bit odd to create a device to make a land-living animal be able to walk in water when theres so many other animals to use if you now are requiered to use them.

    HOMO SAPIENS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • The researchers had to adapt techniques which are regularly used in laboratories to carry out heat pain tests on land-living animals.

    Scientists Determine That Goldfish Can Feel Pain | Impact Lab 2009

  • With the scales on its back and its clear fin webbing, the creature had the definite traits of a fish; but with its flat head and neck, as well as its incipient wrist and arm bones, it looked uncannily like an early land-living tetrapod.

    Creationist���s Nightmare: An Evolutionary Anatomy Lesson 2008

  • They are pretty much the same sounds made by the young of most land-living vertebrates, whether wolf, bear, cat, alligator, chicken, or duck.

    How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

  • "Ayla of the Mamutoi, this is Dolando, leader of the Shamudoi, the land-living half of the Sharamudoi," Jondalar said in Mamutoi.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • It's possible that it was the ancestor of all land-living vertebrates. '

    Last Chance to See Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1990

  • Maybe a land-living mutant, that's why it hasn't spread across the oceans.

    Covergent Series Niven, Larry 1979

  • The land-living animal forms include orders similar to those found on Earth.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • Some 100,000,000 years ago the land-living reptiles were almost completely wiped out by one of the smallest of their own family, which adopted the easiest method of making a living: eating the eggs of its larger relatives.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • Some 100,000,000 years ago the land-living reptiles were almost completely wiped out by one of the smallest of their own family, which adopted the easiest method of making a living: eating the eggs of its larger relatives.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

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