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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elephant birds. Wings, which are modified forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in some birds, including...
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The evolution of birds began in the Jurassic Period, with the earliest birds derived from a clade of theropod dinosaurs named Paraves. Birds are categorized...
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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. It...
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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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Alan Feduccia (category University of Michigan alumni)
of Birds, The Origin and Evolution of Birds, and Riddle of the Feathered Dragons. Feduccia opposes the overwhelming scientific consensus that birds originated...
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order for birds to balance these forces, certain physical characteristics are required. Asymmetrical wing feathers, found on all flying birds with the...
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Dinosaur (redirect from Evolution of dinosaurs)
be divided into avian dinosaurs—birds—and the extinct non-avian dinosaurs, which are all dinosaurs other than birds. Dinosaurs are varied from taxonomic...
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Feathered dinosaur (category Evolution of tetrapods)
remains their function in the down feathers of infant birds prior to their eventual modification in birds into structures that support flight. Since scientific...
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Archaeopteryx (redirect from Jurassic bird)
debates about the origin and evolution of birds. Some scientists see it as a semi-arboreal climbing animal, following the idea that birds evolved from tree-dwelling...
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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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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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Ornithology (redirect from Study of Birds)
and include the use of bird liming for perching birds, mist nets for woodland birds, cannon netting for open-area flocking birds, the bal-chatri trap...
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Bird anatomy, or the physiological structure of birds' bodies, shows many unique adaptations, mostly aiding flight. Birds have a light skeletal system...
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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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by year List of fossil bird genera List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species Lists of extinct species Origin of birds Butchart, Stuart H. M.;...
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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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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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Dinosaur renaissance (category History of paleontology)
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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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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Avemetatarsalia (section Origin)
Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird metatarsals") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians....
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Proavis (redirect from Proto-bird)
non-avian theropod dinosaurs to birds. The term has also been used by defenders of the thecodontian origin of birds. The term "Proavis" was first coined...
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Theropoda (section History of classification)
wings of modern birds are used primarily for flight, though they are adapted for other purposes in certain groups. For example, aquatic birds such as...
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John Ostrom (category Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology)
book The Origin of Birds (1926). Prior to Ostrom's work, the development of birds was generally believed to have split off early on from that of dinosaurs...
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characters, Angry Birds Toons (2013–2016), a televised animated series, and two films; The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)...
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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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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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Deinonychus (category Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America)
similarities between the forefeet of Deinonychus and that of birds, an observation which led him to revive the hypothesis that birds are descended from dinosaurs...
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Beak (redirect from Billing (birds))
are brighter on paired birds than on courting birds. The position of such spots on the beak may be important in allowing birds to identify conspecifics...
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