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   What had the legs of agator and the jaws1 of fish? Why the earliest land animals? Because a new studies shows that animals evolved weight-bearing limbs long before they had the chambers2 to really take advantage of a terrestrial diet. The research is in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology. Scientists had suspected that the first four-legged creatures to haul their carcasses out the ocean didn't belly3 up to the salad bar straight away. But they lacked definitive4 proof. Now, researchers have carefully examined the fossil like faces of 89 beasties lived on land and sea, some 300 to 400 millions years ago. They probed the jaws for a range of biomechanical features, such as how much force they can give to their bite. The result: seems it took tens of millions of years after setting food on land to come up with the mouth that could munch5 on the greenery. Why the leg? Could be the critters had stop being mouth breathers and shift from using gills to using lungs, which freed their jaws to develop in new ways. And which left no more excuses to not eat their veggies.


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1 jaws cq9zZq     
n.口部;嘴
参考例句:
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
  • The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。
2 chambers c053984cd45eab1984d2c4776373c4fe     
n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅
参考例句:
  • The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间:Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网
3 belly QyKzLi     
n.肚子,腹部;(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分,膛
参考例句:
  • The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
  • His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。
4 definitive YxSxF     
adj.确切的,权威性的;最后的,决定性的
参考例句:
  • This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
  • No one has come up with a definitive answer as to why this should be so.至于为什么该这样,还没有人给出明确的答复。
5 munch E1yyI     
v.用力嚼,大声咀嚼
参考例句:
  • We watched her munch through two packets of peanuts.我们看她津津有味地嚼了两包花生米。
  • Getting them to munch on vegetable dishes was more difficult.使他们吃素菜就比较困难了。

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