Sentences with phrase «modern birds come»
So how did modern birds come to rule the roost?
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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.
A set of footprints unearthed in France is the first to show one of the winged reptiles coming into land — and suggests they did so in much the same way as most modern birds.
Hosts infected by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents of disease left behind; metabolic enzymes somehow came to refract light rays through the eye's lens; mammals took advantage of the sutures between the skull bones to help their young pass through the birth canal; and, in the signature example, feathers appeared in fossils before the ancestors of modern birds took to the skies.
The team's genetic information came from analyses of two particular genes from 230 species representing all major subgroups of modern birds.
A set of footprints newly unearthed in France is the first to show one of the winged reptiles coming in to land, and it suggests they did so in much the same way as modern birds.
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.
Chalk Lady Bird up as another essential modern coming of age story.