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Observe the hagfish's horny teeth and scaleless exterior covering a cartilaginous skeleton
southern stingray (Dasyatis americana or Hypanus americanus) bull shark American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) mola pond turtle sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) vertebrate: skeleton
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The tetrapods live primarily on land and are rather similar in habit. Members include the amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Amphibians are widespread in the warmer parts of the continents, being absent only in the far north and in the Antarctic. Three orders are recognized: Candata (the salamanders), the frogs and toads (Anura, or Salientia), and the Apoda or Gymnophiona (caecilians). Modification takes many forms, from the moist glandular skin (some scale remnants persist in apodans) to the loss of many of the bones of the skull. Like their ancestors, amphibians are cold-blooded and tend to be aquatic or limited ...(100 of 4116 words)

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