Sentences with phrase «life grouped birds»

Early trees of life grouped birds together by similarities — or differences — in their bones and body parts.

Not exact matches

Bringing life to a dried fish (this is only present in later texts)(First group) 3 Miracles — Breathes life into birds fashioned from clay, curses a boy, who then becomes a corpse, curses a boy who falls dead and his parents become blind Attempt to teach Jesus which fails, with Jesus doing the teaching 3 Miracles — Reverses his earlier acts, resurrects a friend who fell from a roof, heals a man who chopped his foot with an axe [1]

While bird sightings were among highlights, the group also gained an appreciation for the Neotropics with its amazing diversity of life (both flora and fauna).

Chris Leahy led a group of Mass Audubon travelers to Uganda which offered a superb combination of excellent birding, including the chance to see many West African species impossible to see elsewhere in the region; a nice variety of iconic African mammals; the opportunity as the group travelled through different landscapes and villages to observe the colorful bustle of daily life, exceptionally pleasant accommodations, and the upbeat and welcoming attitude of the Ugandans at each stop.

It's also startling to discover that, while there are some 9700 recognised living bird species and 2200 fossil ones, there have been an estimated 1.6 million types of bird in the group's 147 - million - year history.

Like families, where individuals of different gender, age and dominance live together, several groups of insects, birds and mammals form a well - defined social structure.

Knowledge about dinosaur nests may provide insight into the evolution of nesting and reproductive behaviors among archosaurs, a group that includes living birds and crocodilians, as well as extinct dinosaurs.

A bird group named the Vegaviidae, which resembled modern loons and geese, is the first identified with members that lived before and after the Cretaceous extinction

In the wild, the birds live in groups until they select mates, then each pair diverges into a solitary, conjugal life.

Because the latter group failed entirely, the study shows that the birds need living teachers, the scientists say.

This suggest that important living groups such as birds might result from sustained, rapid evolutionary rates over timescales of hundreds of millions of years, which could not be observed without fossils.

Fish first adapted to life on land about 350 to 400 million years ago, when they evolved four legs to form the tetrapods, a group that includes amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Not only do birds flock together but so too do countless examples throughout life, from the macroscopic to the microscopic, including schools of fish, colonies of bacteria, groups of migrating cells and even some proteins.

That's just a snapshot of the astonishing diversity found in the group of fishes called teleosts, or ray - finned fish, which today have 30,000 species — more than all living mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined.

The origins for reptiles contrast with other famous Australian animal groups including marsupials and birds, which include many more species descended from ancestors that lived on Gondwana, a super continent that included Australia, Antarctica, South America, Africa and Madagascar.

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.

Although specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of land - living species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.

The chick lived 127 million years ago and belonged to a group of primitive birds that shared the planet with the dinosaurs.

If the group wanted to bring the bird back to life, it would need to know the full genome sequence of the bird.

A coalition of Guelph groups working with Nature Canada's Keep Cats Safe & Save Bird Lives campaign are calling on the community to help keep both safe by keeping cats from roaming outdoors unsupervised.

Our collaboration with animal advocacy organizations, rescue groups, conservation organizations, and government agencies are aimed at bringing about social, legislative, and public - policy changes that will improve the lives of captive birds and help protect birds in the wild.

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Viewing Landbirds The landbirds are also a distinctive group - they represent a unique selection of the birds that live on the California mainland.

The Legend Hospitality Group encompasses the rich diversity of southern Africa, her people, culture, breath - taking scenery and abundant bird, marine and animal life.

We'll kayak as a group along the Heritage Shores Nature Preserve, winding through the channels among beautiful birds, jumping fish, occasional dolphins and other marine life.

The Sandoval Lake Lodge Nestled on the Sandoval Lake, Sandoval Lake Lodge provides tours on the water to find different lake - living birds, black caiman, several different monkey in the surrounding rainforest, toucans, macaws, and the resident group of giant otters.

There are also photographs by Felix Gonzalez - Torres, including a group of five framed gelatin silver prints (from an edition of two) showing birds that seem to disappear into the sky, the artist's comment on the fleeting nature of life.

Screening of the film «Audubon» will be introducing the life of John James Audubon to a group of individuals who have an appreciation of birds, nature, conservation and American history.

Found in this group of snippets is the mention of paint marks, and the bird life that inspires them.

The works they have chosen are as follows: Jean - Marc Bustamante (French, born 1952): Suspension II, two silk - screened photographs on plexiglass, shown in combination with a group of specially designed bird cages containing tiny live finches.

belonged to a group of birds known as «opposite birds» — creatures that lived along with the ancestors of modern birds.

Forget the fact that numerous studies report worrying trends for many well - studied groups like birds and amphibians (the latter that are experiencing a pandemic decline and are excellent indicators of the health of the environment), you want us to wait until all of our life - support systems are collapsing around us before you will say that, «OK, I believe it.

Acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus) are social birds, who live in large groups.

The group's initial wonder at what all this colorful «stuff» was inside the dead bird turned to outrage and ultimately shame as we all started to recognized plastic objects from our daily lives (some we had even used that morning).