Sentences with phrase «modern birds need»

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.

Not exact matches

A transitional form is a proof of principle, it simply does not need to be the direct ancestor of modern birds.

We need a national bird that can withstand the everyday toxins of modern American life, not some oversensitive eco-wimp.

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

My Modern Met quotes the artist as saying, «Birds are actually great at recycling and we need to appreciate this.