Sentences with phrase «modern birds controls»

Beyond the bones preserved in the fossil, the tiny wing of this ancient bird reveals details of a complex network of muscles that in modern birds controls the fine adjustments of the wing's main feathers, allowing birds to master the sky.

Not exact matches

There have been suggestions that modern mammals and birds evolved in upland areas, cooler areas, and that's why birds and mammals developed control of their body temperatures.

Either way, the pterosaurs would have needed sophisticated neural control on a par with modern birds, the researchers say.