Sentences with phrase «dinosaur body plan»
The earliest bird - line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan.
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Comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley, for example, noticed similarities in the body plans of dinosaurs and birds as early as the 1860s.
That group includes all dinosaurs but also includes their earlier predecessors and their subsequent kin, which had the same general body plan but didn't have distinctive anatomical features in their hip bones that all true dinosaurs shared.
Their unique body plan — long neck and tail, bulky body and proportionately tiny head — is perhaps the most famous image of «a dinosaur» and the group includes household names such as Brontosaurus, Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus.
«We had absolutely no idea how the ornithischian body plan started to develop because they look so different to all the other dinosaurs.