pachyostosis in a sentence

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1. However, since the bones do not exhibit pachyostosis, a hardening of the bones typical in aquatic animals, including " Thalassocnus ", the animal is believed to have been terrestrial.
2. Most dinocephalians also developed pachyostosis of the bones in the skull, which seems to have been an adaptation for intra-specific behaviour ( head-butting ), perhaps for territory or a mate.