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Mammals are any vertebrates within the class Mammalia (/məˈmeɪli.ə/ from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles and birds by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle earbones and mammary glands. |
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Birds (Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. |
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A fish is any member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definitionare the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups |
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Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (or Chelonii characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield. Turtle may refer to the orderas a whole (American English) or to fresh-water and sea-dwelling testudines |
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The body plan of an adult frog is generally characterized by a stout body, protrudingeyes, cleft tongue, limbs folded underneath, andthe absence of a tail in adults. |
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Insects are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. |
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However,the common name "snail" is also applied to most of the members of themolluscan class Gastropodathat have a coiled shellthat is large enough for the animal to retract completely into |
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Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. Commonusage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids, which arecorrectly referred to as brittle stars or "basket stars". About 1,500 species of starfish occur onthe seabed in all the world's oceans, from the tropics to frigid polar waters. |
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Worms are many different distantly related animalsthat typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no limbs. Worms vary in size frommicroscopic to over 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length for marine polychaete worms |
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Jellyfish, or jellies, are categorized as the carnivorous Medusa form which makeup a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. They are classified asfree-swimming aquatic animals with a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailingtentacles. The bell can pulsate to acquire locomotion, while the stinging tentacles can be utilized to capture prey byemitting toxins. |
