Sentences with phrase «modern birds supports»

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The authors claim the discovery «represents one of the most significant records of a marine Paleocene bird from the Southern Hemisphere» and supports the»em erging view that most modern birds were already diversified in the earliest Paleogene».

Multiple nuclear genes and retroposons support vicariance and dispersal of the palaeognaths, and an Early Cretaceous origin of modern birds

Padian and colleagues believe that these print similarities imply that pterosaurs could also stall during a landing, supporting the hypothesis that pterosaurs were extremely capable fliers, like modern birds.