"jawless fishes"

"jawed vertebrates, which include the cartilaginous fishes (sharks, rays, and ratfish)"

"tetrapods, which include amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals"

"So vertebrates like us are unusually huge and unusually fragile, have rela­tively simple life cycles, and are built f…"

"The geographic location of origin can be inferred from the geographic distribution of certain alleles or lineages as …"

"We identified a total of 362 extant megafauna species. We found that 70% of megafauna species with sufficient informa…"

"Zoos worldwide are visited by great numbers of people, and many of these visitors prefer to see large, rare mammals, …"

"The extinction of the Australian Megafauna was probably the first significant mark Homo sapiens left on our planet."

"At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighin…"

"Hunting by humans played a major role in extirpating terrestrial megafauna on several continents and megafaunal loss …"