Sentences with phrase «of ancient birds»

Two reports in this issue, by McKellar et al. (1) on page 1619 and Wogelius et al. (2) on page 1622, provide a glimpse of the color patterning in the feathers of ancient birds.

Researchers uncovered the fossilized voice box, called a syrinx, of an ancient bird that lived 68 million to 66 million years ago.

A new paper documents the intricate arrangement of the muscles and ligaments that controlled the main feathers of the wing of an ancient bird, supporting the notion that at least some of the most ancient birds performed aerodynamic feats in a fashion similar to those of many living birds.

A new discovery published in the journal Scientific Reports documents the intricate arrangement of the muscles and ligaments that controlled the main feathers of the wing of an ancient bird, supporting the notion that at least some of the most ancient birds performed aerodynamic feats in a fashion similar to those of many living birds.

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.

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Angels / de-vils are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations, e.g. Hitt - ites, to explain / define natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc..

Angels are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations to explain natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc..

Is you god «an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four - footed animals and crawling creatures» and of ancient organic pond soup (sometimes called ancient pond scum)?

(The dove, a visible sign of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament accounts of Jesus» baptism, was a bird often linked to female deities in the ancient Near East.)

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«It shows that the relationship between ticks and birds is an ancient one: It was present in the ancestors of both lineages.»

Previous studies of juvenile Enantiornithes have shown that the sternums of these birds ossified in a pattern different from modern and other ancient birds.

And by tracing the remains of pigments in fossils, called melanosomes, scientists have in recent years begun to breathe new life into the dun - colored relicts, discovering the Technicolor hues in prehistoric birds» wings and the clever shading that veiled ancient mosasaurs from predators.

«Imagery of birds is found in all ancient art and has been repeatedly used throughout history; I was curious if I could add something to this tradition.»

A fossil from the ancient Aurornis xui (left) shows that the bird was the size of a modern - day chicken (right) and could help explain the evolution of birds.

More than 500 footprints of ancient horses, rhinos, birds and other animals dotted the area around the hominid tracks.

The finding adds further evidence that ancient dinos shared many of the same behaviors as their modern bird relatives.

Habib's presentation, along with others exploring what ancient birds could and could not do, has sparked intense interest in variations between the anatomies of modern birds that display different behaviors.

Ancient birds may have flown over the heads of dinosaurs but some aspects of the precise flight modes of these early fliers still remain unclear.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

In the ancient lineage of paleognath birds (such as tinamous, ostriches and kiwis) the intermedium comes closer to the anklebone, producing a dinosaur - like pattern.

For a century and a half, the 150 - million - year - old feathered creature called Archaeopteryx has reigned as the earliest known bird and as a symbol of the link between ancient dinosaurs and living fowl.

But they provide a bird's - eye view of ancient lands that is beginning to transform our understanding of the birth of civilization.

The specimens document the full evolutionary spectrum of feathers, from simple strands — previously inferred only from fuzzy halos seen in rocks — to complex structures adapted for flight and diving, which Wolfe's team believes came from ancient birds.

A team of researchers, led by the University of Edinburgh (UK) and including Swarthmore College Associate Professor of Statistics Steve C. Wang, examined the evolutionary links between ancient birds and their closest dinosaur relatives.

Chinese paleontologist Xing Lida has gained fame for his collection of stunning amber - encased fossils, including one specimen holding a 99 - million - year - old baby dinosaur tail and another preserving the remains of an equally ancient baby bird.

Stuart Bearhop, an animal ecologist at the University of Exeter, UK, thinks birds that dine may simply be adapted to be opportunistic, rather than being an example of the ancient foraging relationship.

Next time a bird is trying to steal part of your al fresco meal, don't scare it away — you may destroy an ancient relationship.

At once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fish.

One established center of turkey domestication was central Mexico, where the bones of Meleagris gallopavo — ancestors of the turkeys we eat today — have been found from as early as about 800 B.C.E. alongside ancient turkey pens and fossilized poop containing traces of corn, suggesting the birds were kept and fed.

Analysing the ancient DNA of the birds, the researchers were able to confirm that modern European turkeys are descended from Mexican ancestors.

The study «promises to develop a colorful picture of ancient life,» says Luis Chiappe, a paleontologist and early bird expert at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California.

Hakawai melvillei was a small wading bird that lived about 19 million years ago during the Miocene epoch, around an ancient subtropical lake on the edge of a floodplain, with many other waterbirds, waterfowl, crocodilians and bats.

The addition of the fossil to existing data on ancient turtles solidifies the theory that changes to the ribs and vertebrae were early steps in shell evolution and occurred during the Permian geological period, when early mammal, bird, and crocodile relatives were also diversifying.

An ancient flying reptile may have had a feeding style akin to that of modern birds known as skimmers, which occasionally swoop along the water's surface to snatch fish swimming there, a new study suggests.

The new species, dubbed Pelagornis sandersi, is one of a handful within the genus Pelagornis — which means «bird of the open sea» in ancient Greek.

«The vocal learning system is embedded within [an] ancient pathway»» designed to handle motor function that, in birds, controls their wings and legs, says study co-author Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University.

That's about the same size as modern - day hummingbirds and sunbirds, but the ancient bird isn't related to them or to any of today's hundreds of species of birds that get their nutrition from flowers.

But it doesn't follow that ancient bird eggs could withstand this, say Charles Deeming at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Gerald Mayr at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany.

The pair looked at fossils of 21 ancient bird species and estimated the size of egg they could have comfortably laid, and their body weight.

But it doesn't follow that ancient bird eggs could withstand this, say Charles Deeming at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Gerald Mayr at the Senckenberg Research Institute...

Not only does the bird look nearly modern, but it was apparently a water dweller, showing that «ancient birds became specialized in their respective habits» very early, says paleontologist Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California.

These oil shales formed at the bottom of ancient Lake Messel and preserve the remains of mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

Not only have we discovered that the Passenger Pigeon was a well adapted, resilient, and ancient bird, we have identified some of the first genes that may help revive the species.

The young bird was discovered to be a member of the major group of birds called enantiornithes, which is a group of ancient, toothed birds that went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period.

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