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Dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial animals for much of the Mesozoic Era, and one group of small feathered dinosaurs (Aves, i.e. birds) has survived up to the present day. Pterosaurs were the first flying vertebrates and persisted through the Mesozoic before dying out at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event .
The following well-known nebulae are listed for the purpose of comparison. Orion Nebula: 20 ly (6.132 pc) [48] Diffuse Nebula: The closest major star formation region to Earth. [49] Crab Nebula: 11 ly (3.4 pc) [50] Supernova remnant: The remnant of a supernova that occurred in 1054 AD. [51] Bubble Nebula: 6 [52]-10 [53] [54] ly (1.84-3.066 pc ...
During the early Cenozoic, after the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs, mammals underwent an evolutionary diversification, and some bird groups around the world developed a tendency towards gigantism; this included the Gastornithidae, the Dromornithidae, the Palaeognathae, and the Phorusrhacidae. [36]
The Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63) is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, most likely before 1824, this object is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae to Earth. [3] The distance, measured by the Gaia mission, is 655±13 light-years. [4]
The eye of a bird is larger compared to the size of the animal than for any other group of animals, although much of it is concealed in its skull. The ostrich has the largest eye of any land vertebrate, with an axial length of 50 mm (2.0 in), twice that of the human eye. [1] Bird eye size is broadly related to body mass.
Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade containing the only living dinosaurs, the birds, and their closest relatives.It is usually defined as all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds (Aves) than to deinonychosaurs, though alternative definitions are occasionally used (see below).
Researchers unearthed the skull of a previously unknown starling-sized bird species named Navaornis hestiae that was so well preserved they were able to digitally reconstruct its brain and inner ...
In response to the paper's taxonomic identification of Oculudentavis, critics such as Wang et al. also have noted a deliberate use of ambiguous language by the authors — in particular, the statement that Oculudentavis is "bird-like" as opposed to being a bird, and the admission that "there is a strong potential for new data to markedly alter ...