How To Use Archaeopteryx In A Sentence
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At Laufen (Oflag VII-C) and later at Eichstätt (Oflag VII-B—close to the limestone quarry where the first archaeopteryx remains had been found), he watched birds that came through the camp wire to breed.
A Year on the Wing
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With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests.
GetReligion
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Although this particular result may be due to the limited sampling of avian taxa, the presence of a deinonychosaurian key feature (a hyperextendible second toe) and the absence of two avian key features a triradiate palatine (3) and a fully reversed first toe in Archaeopteryx challenges the monophyly of Aves as currently recognized.
New Archaeopteryx fossil provides further insight into bird, dinosaur evolution - The Panda's Thumb
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The hands and wrists of Archaeopteryx and maniraptoran theropods are extremely similar.
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Beipiaosaurus and Sinomithosaurus bear short fibers similar to those on Sinosauropteryx, but the structures on Caudipteryx and Protarchaeopteryx are unambiguous feathers, with a central rachis and barbs.
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Microraptor/Cryptovolans has an uncinate process on its ribs which is present in all modern birds, but missing in Archaeopteryx as far as I know.
New Archaeopteryx fossil provides further insight into bird, dinosaur evolution - The Panda's Thumb
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And, in the original description, a special point is made that Protarchaeopteryx teeth are characterized by the lack of serrations.
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Some researchers have suggested that Archaeopteryx could in fact be the ancestor of a group of dinosaurs that includes velociraptors, made famous by Jurassic Park.
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One would expect birds older than archaeopteryx to be much more reptile-like, but they are much like modern birds.
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But Archaeopteryx was very likely capable of powered fligh sic judging from its relatively massive furcula and the asymmetric rachis of its primary flight feathers Feduccia and Tordoff 1979; Olson and Feduccia 1979.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb
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Perhaps this post on Walter Guthrie as an Archaeopteryx in akimbo. moon said ...
Negative Manhattan
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Incisivosaurus – closely related to, and possibly congeneric with, Protarchaeopteryx – has a reduced compliment of teeth, all of which are restricted to the anterior parts of the jaws, and two enlarged, bunny-like incisiform teeth project from each premaxilla (image at top: widely available on the web).
Archive 2006-07-01
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One of them in Britain might be archaeopteryx, the bird-like creature with teeth and other reptilian features.
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You do not simply learn about archaeopteryx, the famous 150 million-year-old reptile-bird dug up in Germany in 1861, but also learn that the quarry worker who found the fossil had a bad cough and traded his find for medical treatment to a doctor and amateur paleontologist, who in turn sold it to the British Museum.
Flocking Together
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Incisivosaurus – closely related to, and possibly congeneric with, Protarchaeopteryx – has a reduced compliment of teeth, all of which are restricted to the anterior parts of the jaws, and two enlarged, bunny-like incisiform teeth project from each premaxilla (image at top: widely available on the web).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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Lyons next examines Huxley's conversion from saltation to gradualism, predicated to a great degree on his own studies of Archaeopteryx and relationships among reptiles, dinosaurs, and birds.
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The Archaeopteryx was warm-blooded, about the size of a dove.
Modern Science in the Bible
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An archaeopteryx, feathers and all, spreads its wings as you open one page; a lumbering ankylosaur rises from the folds of another, its spiny tail raised threateningly.
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But Archaeopteryx was very likely capable of powered fligh sic judging from its relatively massive furcula and the asymmetric rachis of its primary flight feathers Feduccia and Tordoff 1979; Olson and Feduccia 1979.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb
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Named for ARCHAEOPTERYX LITHOGRAPHICA, the first reptile to develop the feather for flight, freeing itself from the constraints of the horizontal world.
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He too agrees that the archaeopteryx is a perching bird, not a dinosaur like many others claim.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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So far, only eight specimens of the first creature classified as a bird, called archaeopteryx, have been found.
The Source
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“Up yours, cueco,” the archaeopteryx said from his perch in one corner as it worried with its beak a Terra Novan olive held clasped in one claw.
The Lensman's Children
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It's not often I actually get excited by bivariate scatter plots, linear regression equations, and correlation coefficients, but the Archaeopteryx note is quite good, basically Bennett's defence of his interpretation of the nine known specimens of the taxon as a single "species," following from an awareness of interspecific variation resulting from ontogeny and, also, concerns about parsimony.
As Kyle passes by.
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Incisivosaurus – closely related to, and possibly congeneric with, Protarchaeopteryx – has a reduced compliment of teeth, all of which are restricted to the anterior parts of the jaws, and two enlarged, bunny-like incisiform teeth project from each premaxilla (image at top: widely available on the web).
Archive 2006-07-01
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It's been known for some time that birds are descended from dinosaurs, with Archaeopteryx representing one strong link between avians and antiquity.
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The morphology of Archaeopteryx, with large wings and tail, but no sternal keel, and with semi-lunate carpal in the wrist, is consistent with this model.
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Like fossils of whales with legs, Archaeopteryx seemed to capture a moment in a critical evolutionary metamorphosis.
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In Protarchaeopteryx, teeth are restricted to the premaxillae and anterior parts of the maxillae and dentaries, with the premaxillary teeth being a few times taller than the others (Ji et al. 1998).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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The first bird, archaeopteryx, is thought to have evolved about 147m years ago.
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What does the archaeopteryx fossil have in common with a Vegas showgirl?.
Flocking Together
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The findings could finally end a debate that has raged ever since the first archaeopteryx fossil was discovered in a German limestone quarry two years after Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species in 1859.
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If no later birds had evolved, Archaeopteryx would be classified as a feathered theropod, assuming we understood feathers in the absence of birds.
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The excellent fossil remains of feathers from the several specimens of Archaeopteryx are remiges and rectrices.
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The carpus of Archaeopteryx is represented as having three carpal elements, but it has four.
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Archaeopteryx was a true bird, because it had a birdlike skull, perching foot, fully-formed flight feathers, a modern-looking elliptical wing, a furcula and avian lung design.
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Maybe the successor to MMOs should be called "archaeopteryx", or simply "ryx".
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