Sentences with phrase «oldest fossil bird»

During a walk near a reservoir in a small Japanese town, amateur collectors made the discovery of their lives — the first and oldest fossil bird ever identified in their country.

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

Not exact matches

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

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.

He adds that other recent finds suggest that water birds such as penguins did the same thing: Earlier this year, researchers reported finding a 61 - million - year - old fossil of a 1.5 - meter - tall penguin in what is today New Zealand.

Of the many media outlets that covered her paper detailing her discovery of the oldest known vocal organ specimen found in an ancient bird fossil, several took liberties in their interpretations of its results.

Living at the same time as the dinosaurs, Hesperornithiform bird fossils have been found in North America, Europe and Asia in rocks 65 - 95 million years old.

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

The first fossil feathers were discovered in 1861 in a limestone quarry in Germany, where workers unearthed a 145 - million - year - old bird, Archaeopteryx.

The bird lacks key morphological features of penguins, though it was found near the fossils of the Waimanu manneringi, the oldest penguin, of which it is also estimated to be the same age.

At approximately 90 million years old, the bird fossils are among the oldest avian records found in the northernmost latitude, and offer further evidence of an intense warming event during the late Cretaceous period.

Fossils of a new species of «bird - eating» spider which is 240 million years old have been discovered in eastern France, more than doubling the length of the fossil record for these creatures.

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.

Using a variety of techniques, including Synchrotron Rapid Scanning X-ray Fluorescence — a chemical imaging method developed at Stanford University that permits the detection of low levels of elements across large surfaces — the team was able to visualize the remains of pigments in several fossil birds, including the 150 - million - year - old Archaeopteryx and the 125 - million - year - old Confuciusornis.

The stomach contents of the 47 - million - year - old fossil flyer — a long - extinct species of perching bird — include hundreds of grains of pollen (ovals in picture above).

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.

A 127 - million - year - old tiny fossil of a baby bird could throw light on the evolution of birds in the age of the dinosaurs.

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.

Fossils of the oldest bird ever pushes back the evolutionary record for birds by nearly six million years.