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2. Archaeopteryx - Wikipedia

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   Archaeopteryx ( / ˌɑːrkiːˈɒptərɪks /; lit. 'old-wing' ), sometimes referred to by its German name, " Urvogel " ( lit. Primeval Bird) is a genus of bird -like dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος ( archaīos ), meaning "ancient", and πτέρυξ ( ptéryx ), meaning "feather" or "wing".

3. Origin of birds - Wikipedia

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   A close relationship between birds and dinosaurs was first proposed in the nineteenth century after the discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx in Germany. Birds and extinct non-avian dinosaurs share many unique skeletal traits. [1] Moreover, fossils of more than thirty species of non-avian dinosaur with preserved feathers have been ...

4. Dromaeosauridae - Wikipedia

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   Dromaeosauridae ( / ˌdrɒmi.əˈsɔːrɪdiː /) is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs. They were generally small to medium-sized feathered carnivores that flourished in the Cretaceous Period. The name Dromaeosauridae means 'running lizards', from Greek δρομαῖος ( dromaîos ), meaning 'running at full speed ...

5. Irasutoya - Wikipedia

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   A sign at a park featuring Irasutoya illustrations. In addition to typical clip art topics, unusual occupations such as nosmiologists, airport bird patrollers, and foresters are depicted, as are special machines like miso soup dispensers, centrifuges, transmission electron microscopes, obscure musical instruments (didgeridoo, zampoña, cor anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such ...

6. Tyrannosauridae - Wikipedia

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   Tyrannosauridae (or tyrannosaurids, meaning " tyrant lizards") is a family of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that comprises two subfamilies containing up to fifteen genera, including the eponymous Tyrannosaurus. The exact number of genera is controversial, with some experts recognizing as few as three.

7. Wikipedia:Public domain image resources - Wikipedia

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   This is one of the largest collections of public domain images online (clip art and photos), and the fastest-loading. Maintainer vets all images and promptly answers email inquiries. Open Clip Art – This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.

8. Microraptor - Wikipedia

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   Microraptor ( Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China. They date from the early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation ( Aptian stage), 125 to 120 million years ago.

9. Ornithischia - Wikipedia

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   Ornithischia (/ ˌ ɔːr n ə ˈ θ ɪ s k i. ə /) is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds. [6] The name Ornithischia, or "bird-hipped", reflects this similarity and is derived from the Greek stem ornith-(ὀρνιθ-), meaning "bird", and ischion (ἴσχιον), [a] meaning "hip". [7]