Sentence examples for earliest birds from inspiring English sources

We know now that pterosaurs predate the earliest birds in the fossil record by something in the region of 80 million years, but, again, in Darwin's time this wasn't known.

This is not a rehearsal for "Jurassic Aviary" -- the earliest birds like archaeopteryx sported menacing rows of teeth along their beaks -- but rather a test of new knowledge about how organs are generated in developing embryos.

Position of hyoid bones (shaded) with tongue retracted (A) and extended (B), shown in the hairy …The earliest birds were probably insectivorous, as are many modern ones, and the latter have evolved many specializations for catching insects.

Thus we are in a position where we can both look for some of the earliest birds or their nearest relatives (and Anchiornis is a superb candidate already) but also look at the origins and evolution of birds in a single context.

The importance of such judgments became clear when James and Pourtless ([2009]), who are not committed to viewing birds as theropods, inferred a phylogeny of the earliest birds and their relatives rather different from the 'theropod-bird' consensus.

The finding that "the earliest birds and their closest dinosaur relatives had very similar olfactory capabilities provides yet more striking evidence that there was little biological difference" between them, he says.

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BEST FOR Early birds.

Early birds aren't ethically superior.

Inside, the early birds slurped and slugged.