terrestriality

True terrestriality requires an obligate physiological commitment to life on land.

What is a terrestrial animal? AYDIN 2008

Anyway, this phylogenetic data indicates that the ancestors of ground hornbills were woodland or forest birds, and that the unusual behavioural characters of ground hornbills – the carnivory, the terrestriality, the striding gait (other hornbills hop when on the ground), the savannah habitat – are derived novelties.

Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

Anyway, this phylogenetic data indicates that the ancestors of ground hornbills were woodland or forest birds, and that the unusual behavioural characters of ground hornbills – the carnivory, the terrestriality, the striding gait (other hornbills hop when on the ground), the savannah habitat – are derived novelties.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

True terrestriality requires an obligate physiological commitment to life on land.

Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008

Independent evolution of terrestriality in Atlantic truncatellid gastropods.

A thesis on Truncatella AYDIN 2007

I suspect that such traits were crucial preadaptations for the evolution of true terrestriality in gastropods.

Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006

Life at seashores, rocky or not, provide important clues to the evolution of terrestriality among gastropods.

Archive 2006-09-01 AYDIN 2006

Independent evolution of terrestriality in Atlantic truncatellid gastropods.

Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006

These snails appear to have evolved terrestriality relatively recently on the geologic time scale.

Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006

Independent evolution of terrestriality in Atlantic truncatellid gastropods.

Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006