Sentences with phrase «old bird from»

An international team of Spanish paleontologists and NHM's Director of the Dinosaur Institute, Dr. Luis M. Chiappe, studied the exceptionally preserved wing of a 125 - million - year - old bird from central Spain.

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You might remember The Incredible Drinking Bird joke from an old Simpsons episode.

3 cups water, or skim milk 1 cup Old World Cereal, Old World Cereal from Blue Bird Grain Farms — See Notes for using Steel Cut Oats 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup fruit, see notes dried fruits 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon honey 4 ounces walnuts, chopped

Birds arrive on the farm as day old poults direct from the hatchery.

There's bird crap raining all over us from the white doves they've released — the older athletes who've been in other Olympics are ready for it, they've got newspapers over their heads, but I don't know anything.

Greg Bird hasn't had much time to play this year while dealing with injuries, and now the 24 - year - old first baseman will miss the rest of 2017 recovering from ankle surgery.

«Every time I walked from my car to the barn that ornery old bird would come for me,» he says.

The racing season for old birds runs from April through July, and the season for young birds lasts from August through October.

* In Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Botanical Garden, on the University of North Carolina campus, at 100 Old Mason Farm Rd., is hosting Valentine's is for the Birds Family Workshop from 10 - 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Strycker, a 31 - year - old writer, photographer and self - described «bird man,» will share stories from his epic round - the - world journey on Jan. 24 at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Stoneware Lauren Alane's Felt Birds Ex Libris Anonymous creates journals from old books Rachel F. was selling her leather works

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

Mozell's photo was chosen from a selection of 10 winners by photographers competing in «18 and Older» and «Under 18» age levels and across five subject categories: People in Nature, Birds, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, and Landscapes.

Cloth diapers are typically made from absorbent cotton fabrics: terry (like towels, but softer), bird's - eye (similar to old - fashioned tea towels), gauze (thin and lightweight), and flannel (similar to the material used in flannel sheets and pajamas, but denser and thicker).

Archaeopteryx remains the oldest known bird fossil, not only documenting the evolutionary transition from reptiles to birds, but also confirming that modern birds are the direct descendants of carnivorous dinosaurs.

Vulture's migratory movements meant they couldn't be sampled across seasons, but older vultures tended to have higher concentrations of lead, suggesting that older, more dominant individuals exclude younger birds from foraging on carcasses.

Researchers bought the specimen from a dealer and are determining whether the bird is 160 million years old, as claimed — or if it is actually 35 million years younger.

The domestic pigeon, derived from the rock pigeon, is the world's oldest domesticated bird.

From the beginning, the researchers took great pains to select birds only for their behavior: Jungle fowl were tested for tameness at 12 weeks old, before they reached sexual maturity.

In birds, variation in life - span extends from parrots such as the Sulphur - crested cockatoo that can become more than 100 years old, to the small Allen's hummingbird with a maximum life - span of only 4 years, a 25 fold difference.

The Bia?owie?a Forest, one of the last remaining tracts of old - growth forest in Europe, is an ideal place to study cavity - nesting birds, full of cavities of every size and shape for Marsh Tits to choose from.

From bird - built bachelor pads, to a 2,000 - year - old pill, to a city filled with self - driving vehicles, here are 8 spots where discovery is happening in real time.

The paper explains that this novel H1N1 has two genes from an avian virus that entered Eurasian swine in 1979, three from the old - fashioned H1N1 in North American swine, two genes from the triple reassortants in North American swine, and the final one from humans transmitted to us from birds in 1968.

But when researchers injected Anas platyrhynchos ducklings at 4, 9, or 14 weeks old with red blood cells from sheep to simulate a parasitic infection, the birds — as adults — explored new items in their environment and approached small orange toys, a color they typically avoid because they seem to associate it with toxic food.

To pinpoint the genetic changes that transformed this shy, wild bird into the chickens we know today, researchers analyzed DNA from the skeletal remains of 81 chickens retrieved from a dozen archeological sites across Europe dating from 200 to 2,300 years old.

«Tell - tale toes point to oldest - known fossil bird tracks from Australia.»

A 70 - million - year - old fossil bird recently found in Madagascar may just clinch the argument that birds descended from two - legged dinosaurs.

One - year - old birds that did not follow older birds veered, on average, 60 miles (97 kilometers) from a straight flight path.

Although this tale established the bird's religious credentials, the Victorians borrowed the story from an old Breton myth.

The 80 - million - year - old bones reveal a tiny creature, measuring two feet long and 25 ounces, from the dromaeosaurid family, part of the lineage that led to birds and a relative of Velociraptor.

Now with these new methods, we can get the DNA from these very old specimens and sequence extinct species like the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the Tasmanian Wolf and the Dodo Bird,» Austin said.

Denizens of bottomlands and old forests from the Carolinas to east Texas, the birds dwindled in number as their habitat was logged from the late 1800s through the 1930s.

But the discovery of a 36 - million - year - old giant penguin skeleton in Peru, with many of its feathers preserved, is providing new clues to this bird's evolutionary flight path from air to sea.

«The inescapable conclusion is these birds were not senescent, not in the old age of their lineage and about to exit from the world.

A 2 - year - old parent bird's average remaining lifespan, for example, dropped from 2.64 years to 1.73 years.

Although they had found some excellent specimens of the earliest birds, such as Germany's famed 150 - million - year - old Archaeopteryx, as well as stunning later fossils from northeastern China, a 20 - million - year gap remained between Archaeopteryx and other fossils, most of which were opposite birds, Chiappe says.

The nearly complete skeleton, unearthed from 160 - million - year - old mudstone deposits in northwestern China's Junggar Basin, extends the fossil record of alvarezsauroids back in time by a whopping 63 million years — making it about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

Scientists have unearthed a new bird species from fossils in the Canadian Arctic dating back about 90 million years, making them the oldest records of avian species found so far north and suggesting an intense warming event occurred during the late Cretaceous period.

To establish a complete genetic map, the scientist will have to recover the birds» DNA from tissues and molecules on older specimens.

The remains of a bird was discovered in a 99 - million - year - old amber from Burma and shows a young, toothed bird that likely thrived in the Cretaceous period along with the dinosaurs.

Since his discovery of nanobes in Italian hot spring deposits, Folk says he has found nanobes in such things as bird bath scum, decayed leaves in streams, brownish water from old flower bouquets, air filters, tap and well water, hair, feces, blood, gallstones, chicken egg shells, clam shells, and teeth.

Recently, he studied DNA from the museum's collection of old bird bones, some more than 1,000 years old.

To accommodate changing regulatory requirements (see Methods), we did the first replicate with birds housed in isolators until 35 d of age, after which they were moved to floor until they were 11 wk old (Experiment 4a), and the second replicate with birds maintained in floor pens from 1 d of age until 7 wk of age (Experiment 4b).

I prepped the birds (rinsed, patted dry and added chopped fresh thyme, sage, olive oil, sea salt and pepper under the skin) before picking my oldest son up from school.

I realize this thread may be a bit old, but for those who may not tolerate chicken eggs, have your tried duck eggs or eggs from a different bird?

Until Santa brings the good stuff, I gathered bird cages from around my house and old books and put them underneath.

Is that bird skirt from Old Navy?

This DIY project made from an old broken bird bath is simply breathtaking!

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Eve Myles, 36, from Cardiff, is the new star of Broadchurch but the self - confessed «home bird», who brought her three - month - old baby to the Dorset set