Early times
About 13.8 billion years ago this big happened
What is the Big Bang?
Nickname of the Tikaalik, who had characteristics of a fish, but was well on its way to having 4 limbs
What is a 'fishopod'?
What is peeing when picked up?
Dig a burrow, hide, and freeze
What is how amphibians survive winter?
A fossil that has characteristics of 2 or more major groups
What is a transitional fossil?
What is the Devonian times?
Important proof of evolution, showing the transition from underwater creature to land creature is shown in the color photo, showing us the adaptions of fish into land animals is shown with the color photo early in the chapter (one of Stacey's favorite things in bio/zoology)
What is homologous structures?
What is 'avoiding being eaten'?
Why do amphibians need to keep their skin moist?
What is Ectothermic?
A flat body, not good at hunting or evading predators.
What are the adaptations of stream and river dwelling fish?
Style of eating for many amphibians
What is eating their food whole (or "inertial feeding," clumsily jerking their heads forward in order to slowly stuff prey toward the back of their mouths.)
Legless amphibians
What is the Caecillians?
One way a frog or toad could kill you.
A critter that produces an egg without a shell.
What is non-amniote?
Name of a 4 limbed animal
What is a tetrapod?
One of the largest transitional creature we talk about in the chapter, a little over 4 feet in length.
What is the Ichthyostega?
Underwater only amphibians
What is the Axolotl?
Has dry and bumpy skin since they spend more time on land than their 'order' mates
A process that some animals go through which changes their body form one from into another.
What is metamorphosis?
A critter that could 'crawl' along the rocks during the Devonian times.
What is the Eusthenopteron?
Early creature with no fins, had limbs, but couldn't put weight on the limbs. (more salamander-like than fish)
What is a Acanthostega?
3 major orders of Amphibians
What is Anura, Gymnophiona (or Caecilians), and Caudata?
Group of fish with lobe fins
What is a Sarcapterygii?