Definitions
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- adjective producing living young (not eggs)
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Examples
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I know that Minnesota has seventeen different snake species, ten of which are live-bearing and the other seven lay eggs.
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The top 10 new species also include the very tiny (a snake just a slither longer than 4 inches or 104 millimeters), the very long (an insect from Malaysia with an overall length of 22.3 inches or 56.7 centimeters) the very old (a fossilized specimen of the oldest known live-bearing vertebrate) and the very twisted (a snail whose shell twists around four axes).
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The Eastern Arc Mountains and Southern Rift are home to the genus Nectophrynoides, which includes the majority of the worlds viviparous (live-bearing) frogs.
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The other two species on the top 10 list are fish – one found in deep-reef habitat off the coast of Ngemelis Island, Palau, and the other a fossilized specimen of the oldest known live-bearing vertebrate.
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One Cuban species (E. iberia, CR) is the smallest tetrapod in the Northern Hemisphere, with a length of only 10 millimeters (mm), while a golden-colored species in Puerto Rico, possibly Extinct, is one of only a few species of frogs in the world known to be live-bearing.
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These species include several live-bearing fishes in the family Goodeidae and a number of silversides in the endemic Mexican genus Chirostoma.
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More than 200 of the hotspot's fish species belong to two families: the cichlids (with 12 endemic genera) and the live-bearing Poeciliidae.
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As many as (hosa) are four legged and live-bearing all
Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006
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GA II 6, in a long discussion of early organ formation in live-bearing animals, Aristotle has a good deal to say on the subject:
Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006
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The Laticauda species sea kraits are genetically intermediate between Asian and Australian elapids while the true sea snakes are deeply rooted within the live-bearing lineage of Australian elapids.
In the, "it's so sad, it's funny" category today... - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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