Sentences with phrase «modern bird groups»

His teams have also uncovered critical fossils indicating that the Antarctica maybe the center for the origin of modern bird groups and many examples of marine reptiles including a unique skeleton of a baby plesiosaur (2005).

The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections, for signs of other representatives of modern bird groups, Witmer says.

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.»»

«The best explanation is that the long stiff feathers, which originated in this group of dinosaurs and were similar to modern bird feathers, could perform equally well as social signals when compared to the bony displays in T. rex or Dilophosaurus,» Gates surmises.

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

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.

Since then, more four - winged dinosaurs have been found, but doubt remained about whether they were direct ancestors of modern birds, or just an unusual group of dinobirds that later died out.

That discovery, combined with other fossil finds in North America that are related to chickens, turkeys, flamingos, and loons, among others, suggests that most major groups of modern birds originated and began to diversify before the K - T boundary.

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.

«They're some of the closest relatives to modern birds, and at the end of the Cretaceous, many went extinct, including the toothed birds — but modern crown - group birds managed to survive the extinction.

The standard explanation is that the evolution of the modern groups of mammals and birds didn't get under way until after that.

Modern birds, a group called Neornithes (a name that combines neo and a variant of ornis, the Greek words for «new» and «bird,» respectively) are the most diverse and widespread vertebrates on Earth today.

Dunne continued: «We now know that the rainiforest collapse was crucial in paving the way for amniotes, the group which ultimately gave rise to modern mammals, reptiles and birds, to become the dominant group of land vertebrates during the Permian period and beyond.»

The petite 1.2 - metre - long Eoraptor followed a few years later; both were identified as very primitive two - legged predatory dinosaurs called theropods, a group which ultimately gave rise to Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds.

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.

The international group of researchers analyzed the genomes of 48 avian species that represent the evolutionary history of modern birds and compared them to many other vertebrates to find DNA sequences specific to avians.

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.

Was Antarctica a site of the origins of certain modern bird and mammal groups?

But more distant groups have proportionately fewer traits of modern birds.

Mary Jane Ansell's new body of work, Of Dreams, Birds, and Bones, weaves classic and modern portraiture together by utilizing the same group of models in different displays, using that consistency to show their evolution throughout her work.

Jamie Isaia (BFA 2003 Photography) Photographer; Filmmaker; Instructor SVA; films featured at ICA's Birds Eye Festival, London, A Shaded View on Fashion film festival, Paris, San Francisco Fashion Film Festival and The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; solo exhibitions at Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, M Project Gallery and Soho Grand Gallery, NYC; group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Dactyl Projects; and New York Art Academy; nominated for the Discovery Award at Les Recontres d'Arles; listed in Photo District News» 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch (2007); clients include W, Italian Vogue, Japanese Vogue, I - D, Dansk, Tank, Zac Posen, Saks Fifth Avenue, Wolford, Swarovski, Journelle and Rogan, Loeffler Randall.

Recent group exhibitions include: Stag - Berlin / London, Dispari & Dispari, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2013; Every bird brings a different melody to the garden, No Format, London, 2013; System Painting Construction Archive, Lion and Lamb, London, 2013; Revealed: Government Art Collection, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2013; The Space Between, Tate Britain, London, 2012/13; Towards a New Abstraction, Fondazione MACC, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Calasetta, Italy, 2012; British Modern Remade: Style.

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