Sentences with phrase «dinosaurs took to the air»
STONY BROOK, NY, July 14, 2014 — Research findings from an international team of scientists including Alan Turner, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, uncovers details on how a new species of a feathered raptorial dinosaur found in China provides evidence on how large - bodied dinosaurs took to the air.
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That leaves open the question of what function dinosaur wings and feathers originally served if they were not used for taking to the air.
Great plant - eating dinosaurs roaming the earth, feeding on lush ferns and palm - like cycads and bennettitaleans... smaller but vicious carnivores stalking the great herbivores... oceans full of fish, squid, and coiled ammonites, plus great ichthyosaurs and long - necked plesiosaurs... vertebrates taking to the air, like the pterosaurs and the first birds.