Sentence examples for bony tail from inspiring English sources

A cockerel has five bony tail feathers like a skeleton's fingers.

It had feathers and a wishbone, like birds, but teeth and a long, bony tail, like reptiles.

The classic transitional fossil, Archaeopteryx had feathers like a bird, but teeth, claws and a bony tail like a dinosaur.

Huxley called attention to the feathers and wishbone of this early bird and the long bony tail of a reptile.

Among others, it has feathers just like a bird (including flight feathers), but has the clawed hands, long bony tail and teeth of a dinosaur.

Archaeopteryx The classic transitional fossil, Archaeopteryx had feathers like a bird, but teeth, claws and a bony tail like a dinosaur.

The first birds inherited teeth and long, bony tails from their dinosaur ancestors, but some had developed horny, toothless beaks by the very Late Jurassic and short pygostyle tails by the Early Cretaceous.

While the earliest forms, such as Archaeopteryx and Jeholornis, retained the long bony tails of their ancestors, the tails of more advanced birds were shortened with the advent of the pygostyle bone in the clade Pygostylia.

Aside from anatomical differences such as long bony tails, clawed hands, and teeth, the slow development of the first birds would have made their biology appear unfamiliar to ornithologists.

And I don't much like the dish, our only dud: the fish is an oafish cut, unfilleted, too near the tail, bony and gelatinous, a shade overcooked, and done few favours by the marrow's blubber and the fleshiness of chanterelles.

PIG TAILS After the headcheese revival of the aughts and the pig's trotters craze of 2011, only one part of the animal remained to be discovered: the rich, bony and gelatinous tail (except for some deeply interior bits like the pig's vocal cords and cervix, to which entire restaurants are devoted in Japan).