Sentences with phrase «between modern birds»

Yeah, it's not much of a joke, but this little encounter underlines the current scientific divide on the link between modern birds and prehistoric dinosaurs.

Skeletal studies revealed hundreds of similarities between modern birds and even the largest of dinosaurs: three - fingered hands, ankles up off the ground, holes in hip sockets.

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.

Not exact matches

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Evolutionary transitions are demonstrated by so - called «missing links», fossils like Archaeopteryx, and the whole array of intermediates between dinosaurs and modern birds that lie on either side of it.

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.

Habib's presentation, along with others exploring what ancient birds could and could not do, has sparked intense interest in variations between the anatomies of modern birds that display different behaviors.

In a separate study, CT analysis of the inner ear of Archaeopteryx — a 145 - million - year - old creature considered to be a link between reptiles and birds — indicated that it «had hearing ability much like a modern emu,» says Paul Barrett, another paleontologist at the museum.

Archaeopteryx was one of the earliest birds, spanning the evolutionary gap between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds.

A year - long study into the behaviour of over 450 blue tits and great tits found that a suburban neighbourhood with trees, shrubs and hedges between properties attract far more birds to their feeders than a Victorian urban terrace or manicured, modern housing estate.

Hosts infected by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents of disease left behind; metabolic enzymes somehow came to refract light rays through the eye's lens; mammals took advantage of the sutures between the skull bones to help their young pass through the birth canal; and, in the signature example, feathers appeared in fossils before the ancestors of modern birds took to the skies.

He gives unexpected substance to his nearly weightless subject, traveling from Chinese fossil beds — which provide a fascinating look at the relationship between plumed dinosaurs and modern birds — to a Seattle factory where duck and goose down becomes insulation.

«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.

2007 Weather Report, Centro Atlantico de Arte Morderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Absent Without Leave, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Unholy Truths, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Manchester, UK Effigies, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK Fractured Figure, Curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Beyond the Zero, Peres Projects, Athens, Greece Destroy Athens, The First Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York, The New Museum, New York, NY How Much Longer, Belkin Staellite, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Out of Art, Centrepasquart, Kunsthaus Centre D'art, Biel Bienne, Switzerland Sweet Bird of Youth, Curated by Hedi Slimane, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany Chi Peng's Journey to the West, White Space, in association with Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing, China New York — States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Terence Koh and AA Bronson, Galerie Fredric Giroux, Paris, France Between Two Deaths, Zentrum Für Kunst and Medietechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Time Difference, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK Body Politix, Witte De with Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Recent group exhibitions include: Stag - Berlin / London, Dispari & Dispari, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2013; Every bird brings a different melody to the garden, No Format, London, 2013; System Painting Construction Archive, Lion and Lamb, London, 2013; Revealed: Government Art Collection, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2013; The Space Between, Tate Britain, London, 2012/13; Towards a New Abstraction, Fondazione MACC, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Calasetta, Italy, 2012; British Modern Remade: Style.

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.