Sentence examples for groups of flying from inspiring English sources
Some of these adaptations are analogous to those seen in the other two groups of flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs and birds.
From the shape of the insect, Michael S. Engel, an entomologist at the University of Kansas, identified it as a mayfly, one of the first groups of flying insects.
Squid are incapable of the sustained powered flight seen in the four famous groups of flying animals.
But we still don't fully understand the mathematical foundations of how groups of flying objects (like birds) avoid an air pile-up of cascading doom.
Several groups of flying animals have colonized the Indian Ocean islands and speciated there, but their origin varies.
"For the first time we were able to look at two groups of flying lineages in vertebrates: birds and bats.
The consistent leaders were often fast fliers and occupied the first position in the group of flying birds.
Living alongside Hesperornis and other Odontornithes was a group of flying birds that included Ichthyornis and Apatornis.
This youngest group of flying vertebrates is another excellent example both of convergent evolution with the other flyers, and of macroevolution and adaptive radiation.
Real life azhdarchids were actually pterosaurs, the group of flying reptiles most commonly recognised in the form of the head-crested Pteranodon; much beloved of scientifically dubious film and television.
