Examples of 'modern birds' in a sentence

Meaning of "modern birds"

Modern birds refer to the avian species that exist today, characterized by their adaptations for flight, feathers, and beaks. They are descendants of extinct dinosaurs and are known for their ability to soar through the air

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The enantiornithes are closely related to modern birds.
Modern birds have one oviduct.
It is not thought to be a true ancestor of modern birds.
Many modern birds are also exhibited.
Archaeopteryx is one of the ancestors of modern birds.
The leg bones of modern birds are much the same.
Avian dinosaurs are our modern birds.
Just as modern birds do.
These feathers are not like those of modern birds.
Modern birds might have dinosaur lungs to thank for their existence.
It is a relative of such modern birds as ostriches.
A solid and rigid skeleton is supposed to be a part of modern birds.
Many modern birds like the penguin and the ostrich are exclusively terrestrial.
These features are more common among modern birds.
Modern birds also lack teeth and are not able to chew their food.

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We can see similar things in many modern birds.
Modern birds and reptiles express the phototransducing pigment melanopsin in the pineal gland.
It is actually a very widely seen habit in modern birds.
This is a physical quality that modern birds have and use to direct themselves while flying.
They really are absent in modern birds.
Modern birds are the only living representatives of the Tetanurae.
The diversity of modern birds.
The holotype specimen also showed features which suggest powerful flight capability similar to modern birds.
Experts say the findings help to unpick how modern birds evolved from their dinosaur ancestors.
They had mixed features of dinosaurs and modern birds.
Basal divergences of modern birds based on Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy.
Adaptive radiation of modern birds.
Many modern birds are highly social, often found living in flocks.
These feathers were identical to those of modern birds in every respect.
Modern birds are classified as coelurosaurs by nearly all palaeontologists, though not by a few ornithologists.
More demur females is relatively common among modern birds.
Some modern birds have feathered feet but not long, pennaceous feathers.
Bambiraptor had a brain size in the lower range of modern birds.
Which body characteristic of modern birds did Archaeopteryx have?
This is a key function for the flight stroke of modern birds.
Penguins are unique among modern birds in that they ‘ fly ' through the water.
Archaeopteryx has characteristics of both maniraptoran dinosaurs and modern birds.
This suggests a link between modern birds and Dinosaurs.
The microraptor is believed to have fed in a similar way to modern birds.
Modern birds did not descend from pterosaurs ; birds ' ancestors were small, feathered, terrestrial dinosaurs.
This posture is identical to that used by modern birds while dozing.
If this is true, then modern birds would also possess digits I-II-III.
Some pterosaurs flew by flapping their wings like modern birds.
B, Higher-order phylogeny of modern birds ( Theropoda, Aves, Neornithes ) based on comparative anatomy.
Though there may be a link between dinosaurs and modern birds.
It was hailed as the missing evolutionary link between modern birds and carnivorous dinosaurs.
Ornithomimosaurs belonged to the clade Maniraptoriformes of coelurosaurian theropods, which also includes modern birds.
Belly rib, s are an anatomical feature that modern birds have done away with.
Many dinosaur fossils even preserve feathers that are virtually indistinguishable from modern birds.
Clarke and her colleagues suspect the ancestors of modern birds also had a larynx.

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