However, no new species of existing large vertebrates are likely to arise and food chains will probably be shortened.

Rarely, other large vertebrates (reptiles, birds, and mammals) are considered as well.

Many fish species are important as consumers and as prey species to the larger vertebrates mentioned above.

Synapsids were the largest terrestrial vertebrates in the Permian period, 299 to 251 million years ago.

Dinosaurs, as the largest vertebrates, were the first affected by environmental changes, and their diversity declined.

The megalania is the largest venomous vertebrate known to have existed.

We might take most of the large terrestrial vertebrates with us梐 few thousand species at most.

The conservation value of secondary forests for large vertebrates in the Brazilian Amazon.

Such speed improvement is thought to be especially valuable in large vertebrates, where nerve impulses must travel over long distances.

They don't lie dormant for 27 years and they don't eat large vertebrates.