Sentences with phrase «most 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.

These tiny structures helped birds to conquer the air, they're the ones that cover the bodies of most modern birds, and they too are found in the Cretaceous amber.

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».

Not exact matches

«This is borne out by the fact that Hesperonis — discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History — which is a near relative of modern birds that still retains teeth and the most primitive stem avian with a modernized beak in the form of fused, elongate premaxillae, also possesses a modern bird palatine bone,» he said.

Why is it that animal viruses seem to be responsible for virtually every modern plague — West Nile, Ebola, AIDS, SARS, and most recently, the frightening (but so far contained) outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia?

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.

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.

In fact, Martin argues that «the evolutionary paths taken by most modern animals, whether these are crocodilians, turtles, birds, lungfish, amphibians, earthworms, insects, crustaceans, or mammals, are connected to their burrowing ancestors.»

And yet unlike most feathered dinosaurs, Zhenyuanlong sported a full set of wings and complex, quill - like feathers typical of those of modern birds.

Consistent with most previous molecular and contemporary morphological studies (15), they divided modern birds (Neornithes) into Palaeognathae (tinamous and flightless ratites), Galloanseres [Galliformes (landfowl) and Anseriformes (waterfowl)-RSB-, and Neoaves (all other extant birds).

In contrast to a backdrop of diverse wildflowers, bees, butterflies and birds — commonly seen in 19th - century landscape paintings — modern wooded areas are now overrun by imported invasive plants, choking out most native species and disrupting much of the natural biodiversity.

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.

Most scientists agree that birds evolved from small dinosaurs at least 150 million years ago, and the earliest known birds have wings and feathers that look much like those of modern birds.

According to Organ's analysis, the largest creatures ever to walk the earth had staggeringly small genomes, most comparable in size to... modern birds.

Nevertheless, most of the known modern - looking birds from the late Cretaceous were aquatic, says Gerald Mayr at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany.

«The new fossils superbly document the link between modern whales and their land - based forebears,» he concludes, «and should take their place among other famous «intermediates,» such as the most primitive bird, Archaeopteryx, and the early hominid Australopithecus.

By studying the microscopic structure of the eggs, Dr. Varricchio and I were able to determine that the animal buried its eggs in a vegetation mound or nested in a humid environment - more like some reptiles than most open - nesting modern birds.

The bird belonged to the enantiornithine family, most of which had teeth and clawed fingers on each wing, but otherwise looked much like modern birds.

In their respective performances in I, Tonya and Lady Bird, these performers embodied two of the most memorable mothers in modern cinema, and took two totally different approaches: Janney was all delicious high camp and toxic bluster, while Metcalf created a subtle, close - to - the - vest performance of a mother whose love expresses itself in disapproval.

It would be difficult to name a more dependable modern film director than Brad Bird, the animator turned writer / director responsible for some of the most beloved animated films of recent decades,

This high - tech, small animal hospital offers services to all dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, rabbits, rodents and other exotic pet species whose owners are seeking the most modern advances in veterinary science.

Bird Hunter (EnjoyUp Games, $ 7.99)-- Despite sharing a name in common with most shovelware on the system, Bird Hunter looks to have some potential as a pretty fun modern - day Duck Hunt.

He collaborated with the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron as artistic adviser on the design for the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium — one of the most strikingly successful buildings in modern China.