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vertebrate

[vur-tuh-brit, -breyt] / ˈvɜr tə brɪt, -ˌbreɪt /


NOUN
mammal
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The study appears in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026

The findings were published on December 1 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

The discovery of the 55-million-year-old eggshells was made in a sheep farmer's backyard in Queensland with the findings published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

Tallie, who was from Oswestry, Shropshire, graduated from Bangor University last year with a degree in Marine Biology with Vertebrate Zoology.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2024

Yet Oken is an eminent physiologist, and has made, it is said, important discoveries in respect to the cranial homologies, which have been developed in Professor Owen’s work on the Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward




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