Sentences with phrase «as modern birds»

A set of footprints newly unearthed in France is the first to show one of the winged reptiles coming in to land, and it suggests they did so in much the same way as modern birds.

The finding adds further evidence that ancient dinos shared many of the same behaviors as their modern bird relatives.

Not exact matches

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

«The best explanation is that the long stiff feathers, which originated in this group of dinosaurs and were similar to modern bird feathers, could perform equally well as social signals when compared to the bony displays in T. rex or Dilophosaurus,» Gates surmises.

With its birdlike wings, the dinosaur looks like a shoo - in capable of flight, but its skeleton lacks features — such as a bony, keeled sternum — that modern birds need to fly.

«We can be sure of the source because the vertebrae are not fused into a rod or pygostyle as in modern birds and their closest relatives.

On dinosaurs, as on modern birds, feathers could have served a variety of purposes, providing lift or maneuverability during flight; a means of sending signals to other members of its species, including those of the opposite sex; or insulating against the cold.

Archaeopteryx doesn't have several features considered essential to flight in modern birds, such as a keeled breastbone to which several important flight muscles attach; a ball - and - socket arrangement that allows the wing to flap fully up over the back and down again; and a muscle pulley system that links chest and shoulder muscles, allowing the birds to swiftly alternate between powerful downstrokes and upstrokes.

These tiny bits are the same size and shape as the pigment - bearing structures (called melanosomes) found in the skin and scales of modern - day lizards and in the feathers of birds.

Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred 66 million years ago when a giant asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving modern birds as their only descendants.

In doing so, he found that the creature's traits were surprisingly similar to those of modern flightless birds such as rails and grebes that frequently dwell on islands.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

The feather shares characteristics with the plumage that helps modern birds fly, such as longer barbs on one side of the feather's shaft than the other.

Today's birds are actually modern - day dinosaurs, and share many characteristics with non-avian dinosaurs that went extinct, such as nesting and burrowing.

The ancestors of modern birds seemed to have sophisticated hearing — and perhaps other sharp faculties, as well.

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.

That's especially mysterious because Enantiornithines were exceptionally abundant (they apparently outnumbered the ancestors of modern birds before the asteroid struck) and had presumably played the same ecological roles as the ancestors of modern birds, which survived the mass extinctions.

A set of footprints unearthed in France is the first to show one of the winged reptiles coming into land — and suggests they did so in much the same way as most modern birds.

The dino was about 1.65 meters long, a little longer than a modern condor, but at an estimated 20 kilograms, it was probably nearly twice as heavy as that bird.

To Norell, it's important to read these as feathers all over the body because the major thrust of his work as a scientist is to show that dinosaurs are direct ancestors of modern birds.

Contrary to their portrayal in popular films, dinosaurs are now widely accepted by scientists as having been covered in feathers, possibly in a range of colors, much like the colorful plumage of modern birds, which are a living dinosaur lineage.

The find makes Jeholornis unique, as it combines an ancestral long tail with a fan of feathers at its base that resembles the tail feathers of modern birds, says Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing.

An ancient flying reptile may have had a feeding style akin to that of modern birds known as skimmers, which occasionally swoop along the water's surface to snatch fish swimming there, a new study suggests.

That's about the same size as modern - day hummingbirds and sunbirds, but the ancient bird isn't related to them or to any of today's hundreds of species of birds that get their nutrition from flowers.

Ornithomimosaurs, which translates as «bird - mimic lizards,» are sometimes called ostrich dinosaurs for their faint resemblance to those modern birds.

Our anatomical atlas of the Thirioux skeletons, produced using modern techniques such as 3D laser surface scanning, opens a new window into the life of this famous extinct bird.

The petite 1.2 - metre - long Eoraptor followed a few years later; both were identified as very primitive two - legged predatory dinosaurs called theropods, a group which ultimately gave rise to Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds.

«The new fossils superbly document the link between modern whales and their land - based forebears,» he concludes, «and should take their place among other famous «intermediates,» such as the most primitive bird, Archaeopteryx, and the early hominid Australopithecus.

Experiments with modern bones, as well as fossil bones of prehistoric birds and fish, show that these worms will dine on any skeletal scrap.

The dinosaur Archaeopteryx is widely regarded as one of the earliest ancestors of modern birds, but the question of whether or not it could actively fly has been debated for decades.

Chalk Lady Bird up as another essential modern coming of age story.

They include an overhead tracking shot that starts above the Roman streets and moves over the Colosseum, giving us a bird's eye view of the scope and scale of the ancient world (it also makes an interesting connection to modern sports obsession, as the shot is quite reminiscent of the overhead blimp shots that are so common in NFL football games).

Meanwhile, customers are becoming more educated about the care of pets, and they are seeking roomier bird cages, often with added features such as cage guards, extra dishes, play tops and multiple doors, all styled to fit well in the modern home.

Modern or contemporary, classic or retro, the design of a person's home, as well as their personal tastes, will determine what type of bird cage a pet owner will buy.

With four sections — Chaweng Port, Bird Cage, Fisherman Village, and Beach Town Market — this modern and trendy complex boasts some original architectural features with its central open - air atrium as well as a beautifully landscaped garden area complete with benches, a kid's playground and countless shops and restaurants.

Located just near Santa Clara, San Carlos, Tree Houses Hotel are perfect for the people who want to enjoy all modern facilities as well as get in touch with wildlife, and a variety of bird species.

Bird Hunter (EnjoyUp Games, $ 7.99)-- Despite sharing a name in common with most shovelware on the system, Bird Hunter looks to have some potential as a pretty fun modern - day Duck Hunt.

The title features new games from Team17, Rovio, Spilt Milk Studios, Sports Interactive, Hardlight, Modern Dream, Sumo Digital, Curve Digital, Creative Assembly, Bossa studios and Torn Banner - those are studios behind hits such as Forza Horizon, Worms, Angry Birds, Football Manager, Sonic and Total War.

He collaborated with the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron as artistic adviser on the design for the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium — one of the most strikingly successful buildings in modern China.

In addition to important pieces of Asian, African, Oceanic and Native American art, already areas of depth in SAM's holdings, the gifts encompass modern and contemporary artworks that any museum in America would covet, such as Richard Serra's colossal five - part «Wake» (2004), a 1926 bronze «Bird in Space» by Constantin Brancusi, Jasper Johns» «Thermometer» (1959) and John Singleton Copley's 1770s portrait of «Sylvester Gardiner.»

«However the modern wind industry knows how to avoid these problems so long as their feet are held to the fire to ensure they carry out mitigating measure such as proper location, proper siting, proper spacing, slow moving easily visible blades, towers that don't make good nesting sites to attract birds and so on.»

belonged to a group of birds known as «opposite birds» — creatures that lived along with the ancestors of modern birds.

My Modern Met quotes the artist as saying, «Birds are actually great at recycling and we need to appreciate this.

Archaeopteryx is fittingly similar to the monster as it is a bird - like dinosaur with feathers whose discovery by archaeologists in 1861 helped provide a link between reptiles and modern birds.

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A dusky pink sofa adds feminine appeal, while modern touches, such as a mirrored bird wall hanging and a glass - topped coffee table, give the room contemporary appeal.