Phylogeny
The name of a group which extends from one common ancestor.
What is a clade?
Amphibians, the group most commonly associated with reptiles, different from reptiles because of this.
What is are born with gills and develop lungs as adults?
Carnivorans are divided into two groups, by their genetic relation to these two household pets.
What are cats and dogs?
This group of carnivorans includes cats and their most closely related relatives.
What are feliform/felines?
This animal's tongue can weigh more than an elephant.
What is a blue whale?
These provide evidence of the evolution of a clade. Often dug up.
What are fossils?
Order testudines differs from other reptilian orders because they share this feature.
What is a shell?
This trait distinguishes the two extant genera of the Felid family, Panthers and Felines.
What is the ability to roar?
The group paenungulata includes this large, land-dwelling mammal, as well as its closest relative, manatees.
What is an elephant?
Despite what television teaches you, you shouldn't give this to your cat.
What is milk? They are lactose intolerant.
Of extant species, this provides evidence of a common ancestor. Found in tissues.
What is DNA?
This order of reptiles goes back to the Cretaceous period and are the closest relatives of birds.
What are crocodilians?
Hyenas are a family of scavenging mammals, most closely genetically related to what?
What are cats?
This group of birds contains crows, ravens, and magpies.
What are corvids?
This animal moves so fast that it heats surrounding water to 8500°F.
What is the mantis shrimp?
This extant clade is an offshoot of reptiles, more specifically, coming from dinosaurs.
What are birds?
Clade Archosauria, which includes the most recent ancestor of birds, crocodilians, and non-avian dinosaurs, are distinguished by this common trait.
What are diapsids? Two holes in the sides of their skulls.
Containing weasels, otters, and wolverines, this caniform family is the most diverse group of carnivores.
What are mustelids?
This group of mammals, known for laying eggs, contains only 5 species.
What are monotremes?
Flamingos do this to stay warm.
What is stand on one leg?
This is the process through which species are introduced to, and rendered extinct from, a clade.
What is evolution?
This clade of reptiles extends back to the Triassic period, but today contains only one extant species. It evolved from the beak toothed dinosaurs. Name group or species.
What is Rhynchocephalia? What is the Tuatara?
Pinnipeds, the family containing the walrus and seals, are most closely related to what common household pet?
What are dogs?
This group of mammals contains the largest creature to ever exist on earth.
What are cetaceans?
This bird has a wing span of over six feet, talons over four inches long, and often preys on sloths.
What is the harpy eagle?