Sentences with phrase «year old bird»

And if you happen to be near the Shanghai Museum of Natural History this summer, you can see the 99 - million year old bird in the flesh, so to speak... and travel back in time, if only for a moment.

Eddy Storkowitz is an imaginative, inquisitive and precocious ten year old bird.

Not exact matches

Brad Felger, founder and CEO of Airstrike Bird Control, has had a self - described love for everything with feathers, scales or tails since he was 12 years old.

Any doubts of whether the 34 - year - old was ready to handle directing solo — a role that often comes much later in the film industry — have been silenced by early buzz around the film mixed with Lady Bird's current score of 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Millions upon millions of years old makes since when you have to explain how a fish, bird, dog, monkey, all other living species and humans are all so different now.

The 100 - Year - Old Idea That Could Change Flight Inspired by birds, bats, and the Wright brothers, engineers are building the next breakthrough in aviation.

Johnston & Jeff is a 130 - year old established family business supplying bird seed to the retail trade.

The American Birding Association is a nearly 40 - year - old group that caters specifically to recreational birders.

The Game Bird at The Stafford will take its place alongside the hotel's existing private dining rooms, 380 - year - old working wine cellars, and the award - winning American Bar, with Durrant working together with Bar Manager Benoit Provost, and Master Sommelier Gino Nardella, to elevate and perfect the culinary offering at the hotel.

Greg Bird is just 25 years old, so the fact he's yet to play a full season in the majors isn't alarming on its own.

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.

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.

Currently at 2 years old we do bath, cup of milk while we snuggle for 15 minutes of their favorite show, brush teeth, read a story, select current favorite stuffed animal to take to bed (right now Sydney loves Big Bird and Kasey wants Abby Cadabby), say good night to the cat and the clock and then they go down pretty well (around 8:30 pm).

Your once fearless five - year - old suddenly refuses to leave your side at the park saying, «I'm afraid the birds will eat me,» while eyeing the tiny swallows hopping on the ground as if they're evil geniuses plotting his demise.

So celebrate when your infant gurgles with glee over a game of peekaboo, your 1 - year - old titters madly when you sing «Mary Had a Little Lamb» in a Tweety Bird voice, your preschooler giggles wildly when you hold a shoe to your ear and say, «Hello?»

The birds are busy in our garden collecting sticks, moss and old feathers to build and line their nests and have been since later February early March — however our biggest joy this year is that they are using a bird box that the kids made themselves with our help.

I have little, 6 - month - old T - Bird in a sling, while 5 - year - old Bug is doing her best to keep up with me, behave and be curious.

When I was pregnant with my twins, I did a few things that «killed two birds with one stone» like taking a bath with my 3 year old toddler.

For young people like Michael Guidice, a 33 - year - old owner of a downtown dog - walking business who had to give up his birds, it represented the ossified political system used to ignoring those not part of the machine.

The 62 - million - year - old mousebird suggests that, after the great dino die - off, birds rebounded and diversified rapidly, setting the stage for today's dizzying variety of feathery forms.

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.

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.

Archaeopteryx, at 150 million years old still the oldest known bird, had an imposing set of teeth.

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.

In 2016, researchers found 1,500 - year - old turkey eggs plus bones of both chicks and adult birds in the Oaxaca region of Mexico.

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.

In a separate study, CT analysis of the inner ear of Archaeopteryx — a 145 - million - year - old creature considered to be a link between reptiles and birds — indicated that it «had hearing ability much like a modern emu,» says Paul Barrett, another paleontologist at the museum.

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.

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.

Scientists used computed tomography (CT) to scan two 55 - million - year - old bird skulls.

«We have to remember it appears 10 million years or so after the oldest known bird - like dinosaurs and so our famous «first bird» may really be a secondarily flightless one.»

Large flying insects that lived before birds evolved, such as the 300 - million - year old Stephanotypus schneideri (main image), were typically much larger than those that evolved afterward, including the 12

Hamlyn describes its Young Ornithological Guides as a totally new concept in bird books aimed at 8 to 14 - year - olds.

Scans of the skulls of 55 - million - year - old birds may provide part of the answer.

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.

When studying the 125 - million - year - old Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis, they detected two types of melanosomes: Eumelanosome, which gives rise to black - gray color, and pheomelanosome, which results in a reddish - brown color.

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

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.

Contrary to the prevailing belief that young albatrosses remain at sea until they're ready to breed, VanderWerf and Young found that 2 % of birds first returned to the colony as one - year - olds, 7 % as two - year - olds, and 17 % as three - year - olds.

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.

While helping Dial study flight dynamics in these birds, his 15 - year - old son noticed that the chukars seemed to climb straight up bales of hay.

Some 150 million years ago in what is now Northern Bavaria, Archaeopteryx — the oldest bird species yet discovered — inhabited a subtropical environment characterized by reef islands and lagoons set in a shallow sea that was part of the primordial Mediterranean.

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.

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.

Two years later, the second generation — 88 birds in all — was old enough to mate and produced 33 eggs.

Yet researchers have long debated whether these first birds, such as 140 - million - year - old Archaeopteryx, were capable of the kind of vigorous wing flapping necessary for sustained flight, or whether they merely glided or parachuted between treetops and the ground.

The feathers of Confuciusornis, a 100 — million - year - old prehistoric bird, could probably not sustain vigorous flapping flight.

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.