Sentence examples for birds were derived from inspiring English sources

These fossils "provide the best evidence to date that birds were derived from theropod dinosaurs," says Peter Wellnhofer, a paleontologist at the Bavarian State Collection of Paleontology and Historical Geology in Munich.

The Israeli experimental birds were derived from sc/sc individuals obtained from Storrs, Connecticut in 2000, and repeatedly crossed to several fast-growing commercial broiler stocks for 10 generations.

"That alone doesn't prove birds are derived from dinosaurs," he said.

"If birds are derived from dinosaurs, then we would predict we would see that same structure we see in birds".

It also indicates that the furcula of birds is derived from clavicles.

The panzootic subtype H5N1 virus strains circulating among poultry and wild birds are derived from the Asian influenza (H5N1) lineage first identified in the People's Republic of China in 1996 (3 ).

The specific name arctica refers to the northerly distribution of the bird, being derived from the Greek άρκτος ("arktos"), the bear, referring to the northerly constellation, the Great Bear.

Bird distributions were derived from two field-based atlas surveys, conducted in 1968 1972 and 1988–1991, and used to classify areas of the landscape for each species as retained, lost or gained between atlas periods, or unoccupied in both.

"I think they did a good job of making the case that the Meleagris gallopavo birds at El Mirador were derived from Central Mexico and were probably being confined," says William Lipe, an archaeologist at Washington State University, Pullman.

The phylogeny and divergence times for the two penguins with six closely related aquatic species (northern fulmar, great cormorant, crested ibis, dalmatian pelican, little egret, and red-throated loon) and a land bird (zebra finch) were derived from the ExaML TENT tree as described in the avian phylogenomics study [ 24].

We recognize that the WWT study gave rise to concentration estimates from samples that were small in mass relative to the quantity of meat from the bird from which they were derived.