Creatures
Vertebrates and creatures are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vertebrates" instead a noun "Creatures".
Vertebrates
Creatures and vertebrates are semantically related. You can use "Creatures" instead a noun "Vertebrates".
Both words in one sentence
- The earliest vertebrates were very small creatures with no jaws.note A few jawless fish exist today, but not nearly as many as the tens of thousands of species with jaws, and Vertebrates since around 400 million years ago have also included most of the largest creatures on the planet.
- Although birds are the most numerous of all flying vertebrates in terms of sheer number of species, they are only one group of the numerous creatures that take to the skies.
Source: All Flyers Are Birds -
Then, when scientists better understood how these creatures are related to one another, they decided that "fish" should refer only to certain gilled, finned vertebrates.
Source: Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
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