Sentences with phrase «early ancestors of birds»

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One established center of turkey domestication was central Mexico, where the bones of Meleagris gallopavo — ancestors of the turkeys we eat today — have been found from as early as about 800 B.C.E. alongside ancient turkey pens and fossilized poop containing traces of corn, suggesting the birds were kept and fed.

The Dromornis murrayi, a 551 - pound flightless bird, now emerges as the earliest ancestor of the Dromornis giant birds.

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.

The early ancestors of modern birds had scales.

Some experts believe that the ancestors of the Irish Setter were the early flushing spaniels of the fourteenth century, when bird hunting was accomplished by the dogs pointing to the trees in which the birds hid.