Sentences with phrase «such ancient lineage»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

He and museum colleague Santiago Claramunt, also an ornithologist, didn't include well - known ancient birds such as Archaeopteryx and Confuciusornis, which belonged to lineages that eventually died out.

With its roots in Turkestan, the Kangal comes from an ancient lineage of mastiffs, guarding livestock such as sheep against large predators.

Its lineage includes ancient breeds such as the Alaunt and the Molosser, and the Pugnaces Britanniae is its direct predecessor.

Both specific and global, contemporary and ancient, grounded and extraterrestrial, Harrison's sculptures set up their own idiosyncratic art historical lineage, which includes artists such as Melvin Edwards, Larry Bell, David Hammons, Damien Hirst and Huma Bhabha.