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TRANSITION TO LAND. “Many amniote groups (e.g. sauropterygians, squamates, cetaceans, sirenians, pinnipeds) made the evolutionary transition from a fully terrestrial to a semi- or fully aquatic life. This required major morphological and physiological changes that are best developed in the most specialized aquatic forms, like extant cetaceans and sirenians, which now live totally independent of the terrestrial environment.”

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118409

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