Sentence examples for feathers were found in from inspiring English sources

Passerine feathers were found in a large number of pellets collected during the two bird migration periods.

It has been accepted that birds evolved from dinosaurs and in the mid-90s dinosaurs with feathers were found in China.

Bird droppings and feathers were found in the main lap pool, while the scales used to weigh boxers seemed to be adding a couple of kilos, apparently ruling most out of the competition.Most worrying, the 60,000-strong crowd that gathered for the opening ceremony seemed to melt back into the city, never to return.

Bird feathers were found in the debris, suggesting a bird strike, although the accident's cause is inconclusive.

The fresh evidence that vegetarian dinosaurs were also cloaked in feathers was found at a site called Kulinda on the banks of the Olov river in Siberia.

Two forms of Mallophaga (feather lice), Philopterus agelaii and Machaerilaemus sp., were found in the plumage of 69% of 265 Yellow-shoulders.

The banned drugs were found in eight of 12 samples of feather meal in a multistate study.

A patch of pennaceous feathers is found running along its back, which was quite similar to the contour feathers of the body plumage of modern birds in being symmetrical and firm, although not so stiff as the flight-related feathers.

True feathers of several types, including contour and body feathers, have been found in the 125-million-year-old feathered oviraptorid Caudipteryx and the apparently related Protarchaeopteryx.

Quill knobs on the arms that help support the feathers have been found in Velociraptor.

Although the best evidence for feathers has been found in a group of meat-eating dinosaurs dating back to about 150 million years ago, and from which birds apparently evolved at about the same time, there have been sightings of bristly, filamentous structures in very distantly related plant-eating dinosaurs as well.