The scientific question of within which larger group of animals birds evolved has traditionally been called the "origin of birds". The present scientific...
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The Origin of Birds is an early synopsis of bird evolution written in 1926 by Gerhard Heilmann, a Danish artist and amateur zoologist. The book was born...
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swimming. The study of birds is called ornithology. Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs. Likewise, birds are...
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ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaurs share the same hip structure as birds, birds actually originated from the saurischian (lizard-hipped) dinosaurs if the dinosaurian...
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Alan Feduccia (category University of Michigan alumni)
paleornithologist specializing in the origins and phylogeny of birds. He is S. K. Heninger Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina. Feduccia's...
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The Origin of Birds is a book by Australian palaeontologist John A. Long and Peter Schouten connecting feathered dinosaurs with the origin of birds....
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On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle...
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Gerhard Heilmann (section The Origin of Birds)
artistic depictions of Archaeopteryx, Proavis and other early bird relatives apart from writing the 1926 book The Origin of Birds, a pioneering and influential...
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Dinosaur (redirect from The death of the dinosaurs)
basal archosaurian origin for birds". Acta Zoologica Sinica. 50 (6): 977–990. ISSN 1674-5507. Feduccia, Alan (October 1, 2002). "Birds are Dinosaurs: Simple...
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for birds to balance these forces, certain physical characteristics are required. Asymmetrical wing feathers, found on all flying birds with the exception...
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Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals...
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Archaeopteryx (redirect from Jurassic bird)
not only in the study of the origin of birds, but in the study of dinosaurs. It was named from a single feather in 1861, the identity of which has been...
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Avemetatarsalia (section Origin)
(meaning "bird metatarsals") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians. The two most...
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Longisquama (category Middle Triassic reptiles of Asia)
origin of birds. Researchers Haubold and Buffetaut believed that the structures were long, modified scales attached in pairs to the lateral walls of the...
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The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries. Scholars wishing to study...
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Birds Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy theory which posits that birds are actually drones operated by the United States government to spy on American...
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Dinosaur renaissance (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
that birds were descendants of dinosaurs. He cited skeletal similarities, particularly among dinosaurs, the "first bird"—Archaeopteryx—and modern birds. However...
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Proavis (redirect from Proto-bird)
dinosaurs to birds. The term has also been used by defenders of the thecodontian origin of birds. The term "Proavis" was first coined, although under the form...
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Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade containing the only living dinosaurs, the birds, and their closest relatives. It is usually defined as all theropod...
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John Ostrom (category Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology)
the 1860s, but was dismissed by Gerhard Heilmann in his influential book The Origin of Birds (1926). Prior to Ostrom's work, the development of birds...
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Theropoda (section History of classification)
evolution and the origin of birds. Freeman. Paul, G.S. (2002). Dinosaurs of the Air: The evolution and loss of flight in dinosaurs and birds. Baltimore,...
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Abiogenesis (redirect from The origin of life)
and RNA for the mechanisms of heredity. Any successful theory of abiogenesis must explain the origins and interactions of these classes of molecules. Many...
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Birds of Prey is an American superhero television series that was developed by Laeta Kalogridis for The WB and is loosely based on the DC Comics series...
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Deinonychus (category Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America)
Functional, And Aerodynamic Analyses Of The Origin Of Birds And Their Flight. The Beginnings Of Birds. Proceedings of the International Archaeopteryx Conference...
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Feather (redirect from Evolutionary origin of feathers)
modern birds before the origin of flight. In many cases, the physiological condition of the birds (especially males) is indicated by the quality of their...
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Archosaur (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
or archosaurs (/ˈɑːrkəˌsɔːr/) is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant representatives. Although broadly...
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The origin of the Albanians has been the subject of historical, linguistic, archaeological and genetic studies. The first mention of the ethnonym Albanoi...
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Compsognathus (category Late Jurassic dinosaurs of Europe)
S2CID 18592288. Ji, Q.; Ji S.A. (1996). "On discovery of the earliest bird fossil in China and the origin of birds (in Chinese)". Chinese Geology. 233: 30–33. Göhlich...
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Bird flight is the primary mode of locomotion used by most bird species in which birds take off and fly. Flight assists birds with feeding, breeding,...
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analyses of the origin of birds and their flight". In Hecht, M.K.; Ostrom, J.H.; Viohl, G.; Wellnhofer, P. (eds.). The Beginnings of Birds. Eichstatt:...
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