Sentences with phrase «modern bird families»
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«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»
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for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, ma - mmals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.
The results suggest that the last common ancestor of all modern birds — in other words, the species at the base of the evolutionary family tree that includes all living bird species — lived in West Gondwana, a landmass that included what are now fragments of South America and large portions of Antarctica, about 95 million years ago.
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.
The Incredibles, written and directed by Brad Bird, served up something of a definitive superhero tale, using an average family with extraordinary gifts to comment on modern standards and mining the rich history of superhero fiction for endless laughs and excitement.
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).