Although Messel is famed for its fossil mammals, birds are the most abundant and species-rich group of land vertebrates.
In September 1999, the conservancy and a group of land trusts joined to buy 758 acres of land in Fairfield County, known as Trout Brook Valley, from BHC.
A study commissioned by a group of land owners and developers and the National Association of Counties estimated the cost to the economy of the new permit process at $300 million a year.
The diversity of form within the angiosperms has contributed to their successful colonization of more habitats than any other group of land plants.
Dinosaurs were the dominant group of land animals, especially "duck-billed" dinosaurs (hadrosaurs), such as Shantungosaurus, and horned forms, such as Triceratops.
There is no state shipping agency, save for the Texas Navy (a group of land-lubbers given a gilded certificate by the governor as an official backslap).
A radio director, Mam Sonando, and a group of land-rights activists known as "the Boeung Kak 13" are among those who have been imprisoned over the past two years.
Until now, paleontologists, citing anatomical evidence, had contended that whales evolved from an order of ungulates called mesonychians, an extinct group of land-dwelling carnivores that resemble but are unrelated to hyenas.
Neighborhood interactions represent one of the main driving factors in a large group of land use change models based on cellular automata (Verburg et al. 2004).
And that would have given the angiosperms the energy to push competitors like conifers out of the canopy around 150 million years ago, making angiosperms the most productive group of land plants in the world.
