Sentence examples for primitive bird from inspiring English sources

Archaeopteryx is a primitive bird".

Archaeopteryx, the famous feathered fossil, was probably the oldest and most primitive bird after all.

Archaeopteryx, supposedly the oldest and most primitive bird on Earth, might not have been a bird after all, scientists say.

"The new species is certainly an older member of the bird lineage than Archaeopteryx, and it's fair to call it a very primitive bird.

Though descriptions of Archaeopteryx as a "missing link" are widely frowned upon by scientists, the creature became renowned as the most primitive bird on the planet.

It is the first such fossil found and is thought to belong to a previously unknown species of obscure smaller dinosaurs (scansoriopterygids), related to the famous primitive bird, Archaeopteryx.

At the time of the winter trip, it was thought the emperor penguin was one of the planet's most primitive birds and that analysis of its embryos would reveal links between all birds and their reptile predecessors.

He bought into the idea that the emperor penguin was one of the most primitive birds alive, and believed that an embryonic emperor might provide evidence for a link between dinosaurs and birds.

The bird belongs to an extinct group of primitive birds almost all of which retained teeth and clawed hands.

He predicts that understanding sound production and reception in these primitive birds will provide insights into crested dinosaurs.

Using advanced x-ray scanning, scientists discovered that these primitive birds had wing and feather structure similar to birds today, they wrote Tuesday in Nature Communications.