Sentences with phrase «of all living birds»
Increasing sales of both live birds and their accompanying products requires close scrutiny of the state of the department, from visual appeal to staff expertise.
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However, in the other major avian branch (neognaths), which includes most species of living birds, it comes closer to the heel bone; that creates the impression it is a different structure, when it is actually the same.
So they're hoping they can do the next best thing: retool the genome of a living bird species so that it gives rise to a passenger pigeon.
No new human cases have been reported since May 8, which Webster attributes partially to the seasons changing (summer weather is not favorable to the flu), but mainly to China's temporary closing of the live bird markets in Shanghai and other affected areas.
The President tasked the Brong - Ahafo Regional Minister to work with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to ensure that a veterinary laboratory facility was provided to help poultry farmers in Dormaa to diagnose diseases of live birds and for research purposes.
The bird - hipped dinosaurs, so often considered paradoxically named because they appeared to have nothing to do with bird origins, are now firmly attached to the ancestry of living birds.»
Half the book's 600 - odd pages are taken up with biological accounts of the 200 or so families of living birds — each a masterpiece of focused scientific research, condensed natural - history writing and beautiful photos.
«It's like a funeral shroud has been pulled back, giving us a glimpse of a living bird, rising Lazarus - like from the grave.»
«The anatomical match between the muscle network preserved in the fossil and those that characterize the wings of living birds strongly indicates that some of the earliest birds were capable of aerodynamic prowess like many present - day birds,» said Chiappe, the investigation's senior scientist.
He noticed several similarities of the skeleton of living birds and extinct dinosaurs, among them, a pointed portion of the anklebone projecting upwards onto the shank bone (aka drumstick).
«These birds are comparatively close cousins of all living birds and they comprise some of the oldest records of fossil birds from North America,» Clarke says.
Among those who refused to believe the end had come was Tim Gallagher of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and editor of Living Bird magazine.
As such, paleontologists championed the Archaeopteryx as the ancestor of all living birds.
The bird's wingspan is found to have been nearly twice in length than that of the Royal Albatross, which has the largest wingspan of any living bird.
By growing primordial germ cells in culture researchers can make genome edits sequentially without being restricted by the breeding cycle of living birds, and the cultured cells will contribute to the germ line when injected into new embryos.
Phase 2 — Beginning Fall 2017, project lead Ben Novak is beginning the first experiments to genetically engineer pigeons, using Domestic Rock Pigeons as a model to begin testing the feasibility of editing genomes of living birds for the extinct Passenger Pigeon's traits.
Habib used CAT scans to analyze bone strength in a number of species of living birds and compared them to measurements taken from 12 species of pterosaurs.
The idea that it was instead evolving to lose its flight and becoming flightless again, or «secondarily flightless», occurred to Habib while he was calculating limb ratios and degrees of feather symmetry in Archaeopteryx, and comparing the values to those of living birds, to better understand its flying ability.
In 97 % of living birds, the male doesn't have a penis; instead, he secretes sperm out of an opening called a cloaca, which is also used for excretion of urine and feces.
The researchers point out that these landing tracks resemble those of living birds like the merganser duck, which adjusts the way its wings flap to slow down enough to land on both feet.
They soon split into two distinct groups: the lineage that led to modern birds, called the ornithuromorphs, and the so - called opposite birds, or enantiornithines, whose shoulder ball - and - socket joints connected in an inverse way from those of living birds.
But in a letter to the Cambridge council prior to the vote, a Petco executive said the company sources all of its live birds, mammals, and reptiles from vendors who meet the industry's care standards.