Sentences with phrase «from modern birds»

He adds that the flight would have been a bit different from modern birds: Archaeopteryx's shoulder joint would not have allowed it to beat its wings in the same fashion, meaning the feathered dino must have used a specialized flapping motion.

Now, a new analysis of dozens of bones from modern birds and flying dinosaurs may have the answer.

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Not exact matches

«Larry Martin, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas, said clearly in 1985 that the archaeopteryx is not an ancestor of any modern birds; instead, it's a member of a totally extinct group of birds.»»

Truthfollower: «Larry Martin, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas, said clearly in 1985 that the archaeopteryx is not an ancestor of any modern birds; instead, it's a member of a totally extinct group of birds.»»

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

The researchers then compared their measurements to those of arm bones taken from 69 other species of flying dinosaurs and modern birds.

Archaeopteryx remains the oldest known bird fossil, not only documenting the evolutionary transition from reptiles to birds, but also confirming that modern birds are the direct descendants of carnivorous dinosaurs.

Modern birds have several flying styles: They can soar on thermals like hawks and albatrosses, glide and flap like storks, or explode from the ground like pheasants and roadrunners, flapping their wings to become airborne for a few hundred meters before landing.

Consequently, modern birds stand apart from Mesozoic birds, and perhaps this contributed to their surviving the end - Cretaceous extinction event.»

The team compared the thickness of the bones» walls and their resistance to torsion — a twisting force that birds» wings withstand during flapping flight — with similar bones from several dinosaurs, flying reptiles called pterosaurs and modern birds.

The most direct evidence comes from the tick grasping a feather that belonged to a theropod dinosaur, a member of the group that ultimately gave rise to modern birds.

Previous studies of juvenile Enantiornithes have shown that the sternums of these birds ossified in a pattern different from modern and other ancient birds.

A fossil from the ancient Aurornis xui (left) shows that the bird was the size of a modern - day chicken (right) and could help explain the evolution of birds.

The team suspected that diet might have played a part in the survival of the lineage that produced today's birds, and they used dietary information and previously published group relationships from modern - day birds to infer what their ancestors might have eaten.

The authors claim the discovery «represents one of the most significant records of a marine Paleocene bird from the Southern Hemisphere» and supports the»em erging view that most modern birds were already diversified in the earliest Paleogene».

The ancestors of all modern birds, from the hummingbird to the majestic bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, seen here as a young adult), lived on a supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere about 95 million years ago, a new study suggests.

The team's genetic information came from analyses of two particular genes from 230 species representing all major subgroups of modern birds.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, the lab run by Alexander Vargas at the University of Chile has re-examined fossils stored at several museum collections, while at the same time collecting new developmental data from seven different species of modern birds.

In contrast, modern birds, which evolved from dinosaurs, have much shorter stubs of tails called pygostyles, formed by fusing several vertebrae.

Most scientists agree that birds evolved from small dinosaurs at least 150 million years ago, and the earliest known birds have wings and feathers that look much like those of modern birds.

The authors conclude that unless the feather structures of Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx were greatly different from those of modern birds — for example if their rachis were solid rather than hollow like those of modern birds, a possibility they consider unlikely — then flapping flying must have been a later development.

Analysing the ancient DNA of the birds, the researchers were able to confirm that modern European turkeys are descended from Mexican ancestors.

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 results suggest that the early birds from the Mesozoic (252 to 66 million years» ago) laid eggs that had different shapes to those of modern birds.

Modern elapids prey on anything from birds to fish, but the hole - punching fangs have remained.

That's about the same size as modern - day hummingbirds and sunbirds, but the ancient bird isn't related to them or to any of today's hundreds of species of birds that get their nutrition from flowers.

Nevertheless, most of the known modern - looking birds from the late Cretaceous were aquatic, says Gerald Mayr at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany.

In this first example of that phenomenon in birds and nematodes, we learned that a class of parasites that is a present - day scourge once switched hosts from birds to mammals — a process that is all too familiar to modern epidemiologists.

They soon split into two distinct groups: the lineage that led to modern birds, called the ornithuromorphs, and the so - called opposite birds, or enantiornithines, whose shoulder ball - and - socket joints connected in an inverse way from those of living birds.

Modern birds use their feet in order to interact with their environment in numerous and complex ways — relying on them for locomotion, prey capture, grooming, perching, nesting, and even fighting among themselves or for defense from predators or competing species.

For decades, one theory dominated the world of paleontology: Modern birds evolved from a wide - ranging group of dinosaurs called theropods, of which the Tyrannosaurus rex was one.

I am particularly interested in figuring out how quickly oviraptorosaurs grew from babies to adults, and what the ecology and anatomy of modern birds can tell us.

These early bird chicks may have been much like modern chickens, which have feathers and can move around from birth.

Further, this is suggestive of a species of birds that are almost immediately independent and self - sufficient from birth, quite unlike modern birds that are often cared for by parent birds in the early stages of life.

Five successive ancestors leading from dinosaurs to modern birds.

Birds are certainly quite different from other living Reptilia, but the traits that modern birds possess were acquired gradually over many millions of years of evoluBirds are certainly quite different from other living Reptilia, but the traits that modern birds possess were acquired gradually over many millions of years of evolubirds possess were acquired gradually over many millions of years of evolution.

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This modern progressive city takes its name after a great mythical bird that can rise from ashes.

The historic and modern hunting uses of Rhodesian Ridgebacks have included everything from upland game birds to larger «dangerous game».

Housed in a Neoclassical mansion, the interiors are a mix of old and new: bird - patterned wallpaper inspired by artwork from the 17th century, white Italian marble, and Midcentury Modern tables and ottomans.

Take a spectacular scenic flight from Torquay in a brand new, spacious, modern aircraft for a bird's eye view of the world famous Great Ocean Road...

Bird Rock Hotel is a refreshing combination of an historic hotel exterior and stylishly modern interiors ranging from deluxe, harbor - view, king - jacuzzi suites to simple, European - style sleeping rooms.

The title features new games from Team17, Rovio, Spilt Milk Studios, Sports Interactive, Hardlight, Modern Dream, Sumo Digital, Curve Digital, Creative Assembly, Bossa studios and Torn Banner - those are studios behind hits such as Forza Horizon, Worms, Angry Birds, Football Manager, Sonic and Total War.

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.

Examples from this period include: Family Excursions (c. 1919, Narodni Gallery, Prague); The Small Fistule That Says Tic Tac (1920, The Museum of Modern Art, New York); and Birds, Fish - Snake and Scarecrow (c. 1921, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich).

The art makers long standing occupation with movement, both away from and out toward the viewer in space has modern examples in Frank Stella's «Exotic Bird» series, wherein arabesque, curly - q drafting tool shapes leap brightly off the canvas, and in the monochrome, «Spatial» paintings of Lucio Fontana, wherein slashes through the stretched canvas pull the space just behind the artwork directly into viewer consideration.