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vertebrate

noun as in animal

noun as in mammal

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The deepest marine vertebrate life filmed before this expedition was at 8,336m - a snailfish that was filmed swimming in a deep ocean trench off the coast of Japan in 2023.

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Herrings are vertebrates, in the greater evolutionary scheme not all that different from us.

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Existing protections for the use of research animals by and large prevent the creation of vertebrate cyborgs of this kind.

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There are ventures that celebrate fast food, Finnish folk art, Skid Row, skateboarding, historical glass, vertebrate zoology and more.

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“Living gigantic sharks, such as the whale shark and basking shark, as well as many other gigantic aquatic vertebrates like whales have slender bodies because large stocky bodies are hydrodynamically inefficient for swimming,” Shimada said.

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