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2. Evolution of birds - Wikipedia

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   Confuciusornis is an example of their trend. While keeping the clawed fingers, perhaps for climbing, it had a pygostyle tail, though longer than in modern birds. A large group of birds, the Enantiornithes, evolved into ecological niches similar to those of modern birds and flourished throughout the Mesozoic. Though their wings resembled those ...

3. Origin of birds - Wikipedia

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   A turning point came in the early twentieth century with the writings of Gerhard Heilmann of Denmark.An artist by trade, Heilmann had a scholarly interest in birds and from 1913 to 1916, expanding on earlier work by Othenio Abel, [12] published the results of his research in several parts, dealing with the anatomy, embryology, behavior, paleontology, and evolution of birds. [13]

4. Origin of avian flight - Wikipedia

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   The WAIR hypothesis, a version of the "cursorial model" of the evolution of avian flight, in which birds' wings originated from forelimb modifications that provided downforce, enabling the proto-birds to run up extremely steep slopes such as the trunks of trees, was prompted by observation of young chukar chicks, and proposes that wings ...

5. Scott V. Edwards - Wikipedia

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   Edwards' research focuses on the molecular evolution of birds.Several papers from his group describe the evolution of birds from dinosaurs; for example, genetic evidence was reported for the evolution of genes involved in feather formation much earlier than the common ancestor of modern birds, supporting the hypothesis that non-avian dinosaurs had feathers.

6. File:On the natural history and classification of birds (IA ...

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7. Geologists Found Ancient Bird Footprints That Are 60 Million ...

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   However, the evolutionary transition from dinosaur to bird and the timing of the birds’ origin are still contested,” the paper reads. “That these tracks of southern Africa, dating to the ...

8. Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle - Wikipedia

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   Following a preface and introduction, Feathers is divided into five main parts: "Evolution" discusses the evolutionary history of feathers, "Fluff" explains the role of feathers in regulating body temperature, "Flight" discusses the origin of avian flight as well as its impact on human aviation, "Fancy" discusses the role of feathers in sexual selection and human fashion, and "Function ...

9. How did flightless birds spread across the world? - AOL

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   That would make flightlessness an example of convergent evolution, when two species independently evolve the same traits, like hard shells in different kinds of pill bugs or fingerprints in humans ...