Sentences with phrase «into nonavian»

Feathered animals abound and extend deep into nonavian history — even, perhaps, to the base of dinosaurs themselves.

Not exact matches

For the past two decades, scientists using cladistics have claimed that dromaeosaurs were nonavian ancestors of birds, representing the best examples of how ground - dwelling dinosaurs supposedly evolved into birds.

The object that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs and many other groups but largely spared species in freshwater ecosystems, a disparity explained by a new study.