"Amphibia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... animal life does not appear first. In Genesis, birds appear together with aquatic creatures, and precede all land animals; according to the evidence of geology, birds are unknown till a period much later than that at which aquatic creatures (including fishes and amphibia) abound, and they are preceded by numerous species of land animals—in particular, by insects and other 'creeping things.'" Of the Mosaic account of the existence of vegetation before the creation of the sun, Canon ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Islands is Calotes, one of the Agamidae (cf. H. Gadow, Amphibia ...
— Philippine Folk-Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington,
... on the death temperature and paralysis temperature (temperature of heat rigor) of various animals. He found that animals of the same class of the animal kingdom showed very similar temperature values, those from the Amphibia examined being 38.5 deg. C., Fishes 39 deg., Reptilia 45 deg., and various Molluscs 46 deg.. Also in the case of Pelagic animals he showed a relation between death temperature and the quantity of solid constituents of the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... formed by union of the free ends of the segment so that the spindle fibers are attached to the middle of each univalent chromosome (fig. 49). This method of ring formation, like that described by Montgomery ('03) for the Amphibia, is of very frequent occurrence in the spermatocytes of the Coleoptera. The dumb-bells are so bent at the ends (fig. 52) that the spindle fibers, here also, are attached at or near the center of each univalent component of a bivalent chromosome, and the separated, ...
— Studies in Spermatogenesis - Part II • Nettie Maria Stevens
... upon respired oxygen, it will vary according to the respiratory apparatus of the animal. Thus the temperature of a child is 102 deg. F., while that of an adult is 99-1/2 deg. F. That of birds is higher than that of quadrupeds or that of fishes or amphibia, whose proper temperature is 3 deg. F higher than the medium in which they live. All animals, strictly speaking, are warm-blooded; but in those only which possess lungs is their temperature quite independent of the surrounding medium. ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various |
