Sentences with phrase «ago about the birds»

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The first Birds appear about 160 million years ago in the mid-jurassic.

A few months ago I wrote about the announcement of new award for coffee farmers initiated by Cooper Ecological Monitoring, Roast Magazine, and Birder's Exchange (a program of the American Birding Association).

As lacrosse enthusiasts fashion a hybrid from these competing strains, they might take inspiration from a Mohawk legend that is often retold, about a game of lacrosse played long ago between the birds and the land animals.

LINCOLN, MA — Exactly 100 years ago, Mass Audubon was offered a 225 - acre hillside property in Sharon as a protected oasis where people could learn about birds in their natural habitats.

The government promised to pay the farmers about GH cents 11 million as compensation for culling 111,000 birds during the Avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak two years ago.

Archosauromorphs, which existed about 250 million years ago, were the creatures that evolved into crocodiles, dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs.

About 250 million years ago, when therapsid reptiles gave rise to birds and mammals, a neuronal structure probably evolved in some animals that allowed for interaction between those parts of the nervous system involved in carrying out perceptual categorization and those carrying out memory.

One of the earliest birds, Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period, spanning the evolutionary gap between modern birds and feathered dinosaurs.

Steve: This is H1N1 as opposed to, I mean, a few years ago we were all worried about the bird flu, which is H5N1.

«By the end of the Cretaceous period [about 65 million years ago], birds looked quite a lot like they do today,» says Clapham.

«These tracks are evidence that we had sizeable, flying birds living alongside other kinds of dinosaurs on these polar, river floodplains, about 105 million years ago,» Martin says.

Researchers examined several partial skeletons of Xenicibis xympithecus, an extinct wading bird about the size of a large chicken that lived some 10,000 years ago.

The smart birds seem to have evolved this flexible cognitive ability independently from hominids as the two lineages diverged about 320 million years ago

The ancestors of all modern birds, from the hummingbird to the majestic bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, seen here as a young adult), lived on a supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere about 95 million years ago, a new study suggests.

Every bird alive today can trace its ancestry to creatures that lived about 95 million years ago on a chunk of land that split off from the supercontinent Gondwana, a new study suggests.

The results suggest that the last common ancestor of all modern birds — in other words, the species at the base of the evolutionary family tree that includes all living bird species — lived in West Gondwana, a landmass that included what are now fragments of South America and large portions of Antarctica, about 95 million years ago.

Fish first adapted to life on land about 350 to 400 million years ago, when they evolved four legs to form the tetrapods, a group that includes amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Biologist Robert Nudds of the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and paleontologist Gareth Dyke of University College Dublin in Ireland focused on Confuciusornis, a bird dated to about 100 million years ago.

Here's what we know about the evolution of flight: By about 150 million years ago, the forests were filled with flying — or perhaps just gliding — dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx, possibly similar to the ancestor of modern birds.

The evidence, thus far, points to an origin of REM and slow - wave sleep at least as far back as the common ancestor of reptiles, birds and mammals, which lived about 320 million years ago,» explains Laurent.

Part of a group called phorusrhacids, or «terror birds,» the beast inhabited Argentina about 6 million years ago.

Our avian friends appeared about 150 million years ago, and some prehistoric bird fossils have been found with their feathers nearly intact.

Hakawai melvillei was a small wading bird that lived about 19 million years ago during the Miocene epoch, around an ancient subtropical lake on the edge of a floodplain, with many other waterbirds, waterfowl, crocodilians and bats.

The fossil record makes clear that birds were the only dinosaurs to survive a mass extinction about 66 million years ago, probably caused by a massive asteroid hitting Earth.

Although the best evidence for feathers has been found in a group of meat - eating dinosaurs dating back to about 150 million years ago, and from which birds apparently evolved at about the same time, there have been sightings of bristly, filamentous structures in very distantly related plant - eating dinosaurs as well.

It's now largely (but not entirely) accepted among biologists that dinosaurs are the forerunners of birds, Greenwold says, and that certain species of dinosaurs began to evolve feathers about 150 million years ago.

Most scientists think birds evolved from dinosaurs about 150 million years ago.

They determined it was around 180,000 years ago when the two parental species originally mated, and that both parental species diverged from a common ancestor about 300,000 years ago, making all three very recent birds by Amazon rainforest standards.

These oil shales formed at the bottom of ancient Lake Messel and preserve the remains of mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).

Merlin Bird ID is an outgrowth of the Visipedia research project, which engineers started about five years ago as a sort of «visual Wikipedia.»

The last Dodo bird died on the island of Mauritius (located about 1,200 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, in the Indian Ocean) over 300 years ago.

Scientists now know more about the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that, while not a bird, appears to have been an expert flier that traversed the skies 125 million years ago.

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Ronan talks about acting for the camera like she has done it for 50 years, affecting a California accent for Lady Bird, discovering the character as she was doing it, and getting emotional when we talked of the tender immigrant tale Brooklyn which brought her her second Oscar nomination just two years ago.

It opened almost four months ago in the US, last week in the UK, and today Irish audiences will finally get the chance to watch Lady Bird and find out what all the fuss is about.

The number of pet birds in the U.S. totally crash landed in this most recent survey, falling about 26 percent from five years ago to 8.3 million.

Look at these blogs, numerous since the Stevenson trial: All this talk of killing, poisoning, calling cats criminals for walking on plants to pooping in gardens, and calling for their deaths... what about birds, pooping on our windshields, on our sidewalks, taking down airplanes, causing the avian flu that killed 50 million people 80 yrs ago, and preparing to do the exact same thing again... still are cat people joking about putting about poison bird seed, mass extermination of birds...

Gun Dog Magazine reports, «Originally bred about 150 years ago in England to hunt upland game birds and waterfowl, the curly - coat — the first breed to be officially recognized as a retriever — is now considered a rare breed popular with the «show» people but still an excellent all - around hunting dog.»

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