Sentences with phrase «contains modern birds»

The find means the branch on the tree of life that contains modern birds is now surrounded by animals with four wings, says Steve Salisbury of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, which suggests the four - wing condition may have been an important step in the origin of birds.

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Why is it that animal viruses seem to be responsible for virtually every modern plague — West Nile, Ebola, AIDS, SARS, and most recently, the frightening (but so far contained) outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia?
Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.
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