Sentences with phrase «like modern birds»

The bird belonged to the enantiornithine family, most of which had teeth and clawed fingers on each wing, but otherwise looked much like modern birds.

Padian and colleagues believe that these print similarities imply that pterosaurs could also stall during a landing, supporting the hypothesis that pterosaurs were extremely capable fliers, like modern birds.

They were unable to launch themselves like modern birds, though, so how did these prehistoric giants get off the ground?

«New dinosaur discovery suggests new species roosted together like modern birds.»

They found that the dinosaur had a fairly uniform body temperature, like a modern bird or mammal, and their result has rekindled the long and bitter row over whether dinosaurs were warm - blooded or cold - blooded.

Not exact matches

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Evolutionary transitions are demonstrated by so - called «missing links», fossils like Archaeopteryx, and the whole array of intermediates between dinosaurs and modern birds that lie on either side of it.

Many vestigial structures also exist, showing links back to evolutionary history, like hind limbs on snake fossils, pelvises on modern whales, wings on flightless birds, and tails and extra ribs on humans.

I am wanting to create a logo of a papa, mama and baby bird snuggled together in a nest... sorta simple / modern / cute, like a silhouette kinda.

With its birdlike wings, the dinosaur looks like a shoo - in capable of flight, but its skeleton lacks features — such as a bony, keeled sternum — that modern birds need to fly.

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.

The researchers also looked at the lineage of dinosaurs that led to modern birds — including maniraptoriforms like Velociraptor, Ornithomimus and Falcarius.

The folds of skin in front of the elbow and behind the wrist (called patagia) were covered in feathers, just like in modern living birds.

In a separate study, CT analysis of the inner ear of Archaeopteryx — a 145 - million - year - old creature considered to be a link between reptiles and birds — indicated that it «had hearing ability much like a modern emu,» says Paul Barrett, another paleontologist at the museum.

And with its feathers and bones looking so much like modern flightless island birds, it just makes me wonder,» says Habib.

«If it had a physiology like modern animals we would then say that this animal was warm - blooded like a bird or mammal,» says Showers.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake botLike all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake botlike ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

Now, researchers reporting April 21 in Current Biology suggest that abrupt ecological changes following a meteor impact may have been more detrimental to carnivorous bird - like dinosaurs, and early modern birds with toothless beaks were able to survive on seeds when other food sources declined.

Like modern amphibians, the remote ancestors of birds once had three bones in their upper ankle.

And yet unlike most feathered dinosaurs, Zhenyuanlong sported a full set of wings and complex, quill - like feathers typical of those of modern birds.

Fossil bones don't clearly show whether modern - type birds fluttered about during the Cretaceous, but the treads in Shandong do, painting an improbable scene: Animals much like today's roadrunners were in fact scampering beside two - legged, plant - eating dinosaurs.

Contrary to their portrayal in popular films, dinosaurs are now widely accepted by scientists as having been covered in feathers, possibly in a range of colors, much like the colorful plumage of modern birds, which are a living dinosaur lineage.

Like the tails of modern birds, these form an aerofoil without gaps.

Here's what we know about the evolution of flight: By about 150 million years ago, the forests were filled with flying — or perhaps just gliding — dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx, possibly similar to the ancestor of modern birds.

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.

Modern birds have skulls that look remarkably like those of juvenile dinosaurs, offering an unusual explanation for how birds came to have relatively large brains.

By studying the microscopic structure of the eggs, Dr. Varricchio and I were able to determine that the animal buried its eggs in a vegetation mound or nested in a humid environment - more like some reptiles than most open - nesting modern birds.

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

This crow - sized Archaeopteryx displayed a mosaic of both bird - like and reptilian features: Plumage with modern feathers, but also clawed fingers on its wings, teeth in its mouth, and a long bony tail.

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Archaeopteryx is fittingly similar to the monster as it is a bird - like dinosaur with feathers whose discovery by archaeologists in 1861 helped provide a link between reptiles and modern birds.