vertebrate

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This indicates that their diet -- nectar, grain, insects and even other vertebrates -- contained significant amounts of ethanol.

From Science Daily

Today, lizards and their close relatives, including snakes and the distinctive tuatara from New Zealand, form the most diverse group of land vertebrates.

From Science Daily

Instead, their body plan develops from the genes that acorn worms and vertebrates use to develop their heads.

From Salon

"We were able to show that fishing cats have retained many genes for detecting waterborne odorants, which is a pretty rare trait in terrestrial vertebrates," he said.

From Science Daily

What the study found is that starfish have cells corresponding to a vertebrate’s head in their middle and in the centers of their five “arms” with tail-coded cells on the perimeter.

From Washington Times