hautboy
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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hautboy wooden wind instrument. XVI. — F.
hautbois, f.
haut high +
bois wood; so named from its high pitch. Superseded by
OBOE.
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Posture, Locomotion, and Paleoecology of Pterosaurs
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...general review of pterosaurs and their literature...understanding of pterosaur flight. The majority...general review of pterosaurs that is rather...misinterpretations of pterosaurs. The interpretation of pterosaur wing structure...
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Pterosaur footprints show it touched down like most modern birds.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 8/19/2009; 700+ words
; ...whether the largest pterosaurs could fly at all...some answers to pterosaur behaviour. "They...in the life of a pterosaur", they offer...that the largest pterosaurs took flight by...the other hand, pterosaurs seem perfectly...depending on the pterosaur," he said...
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Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement
Magazine article from: Paleobiology; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...terrestrial abilities of pterosaurs, their apparent...fragile nature of the pterosaur wing apparatus...and Cretaceous pterosaurs and birds and identified...gradual decline in pterosaur diversity beginning...may have driven pterosaur decline, with...competitively) replacing pterosaurs ...
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Four, Three, Two, One ... Pterosaurs Have Lift Off! Hopkins Researcher Reports That Ancient Flying Reptiles Used Four Legs to Launch.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 1/6/2009; 700+ words
; ...6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity...heft into flight required pterosaurs to use four limbs: two were...classical bipedal model of pterosaur take-off was first championed...EDITORS: Illustrations of pterosaurs available for download at...
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Young pterosaurs came ready to fly.(Conference report: palaeontology)
Magazine article from: New Scientist; 11/13/2004; 700+ words
; ...taking wing. Yet pterosaurs could fly almost...contains a young pterosaur with long wings...shows the young pterosaur would have hatched...means that young pterosaurs could survive on...responsibility, some pterosaurs grew to a giant...created by a landing pterosaur also shows they...
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Ancient pterosaur's wings unlike any found in living animals.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 8/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...had been found on pterosaurs before, but researchers...newly examined pterosaur has the hairlike...have helped the pterosaurs control their body...said. The fossil pterosaur, Jeholopterus...Previous studies of pterosaur wings had shown...fibers unique to pterosaurs called ...
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Pterosaurs waddled when they walked? (dinosaur research)
Magazine article from: Science News; 5/30/1987; 579 words
; ...relativelyuncrushed pterosaur pelvises that were...suggesting that pterosaurs' legs were splayed...Unwin argues that pterosaurs were probably good...too far, since pterosaur anatomy is quite different. Pterosaurs, he writes...
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On the trail of pterosaurs. (tracks of winged reptiles indicate they walked on all four limbs)(Paleontology)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 11/2/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...supported the wing, which pterosaurs could fold backward over their...with trace prints made by pterosaurs," he says. Despite the new evidence, the debate over pterosaur locomotion marches on...these are convincing tracks of pterosaurs," declares Kevin Padian...
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Flying reptile fossil bridges evolutionary gap between two groups of pterosaurs.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 10/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...smaller, ancient pterosaurs and more modern...details of a new pterosaur fit exactly in...this crow-sized pterosaur suggest that it...included various pterosaurs, tiny gliding...evolution of advanced pterosaurs from their primitive...ancestors." "Our new pterosaur is great, because...
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Fossil reveals how pterosaur fell to earth - with a hop
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/19/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...footprints have revealed that the pterosaur stalled in the air moments before...control the landing indicated the pterosaurs were "strong, manoeuvrable flyers...safely and folded its wings, the pterosaur turned slightly and wandered off...
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pterosaurs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
pterosaurs Pterosaurs are one of the three groups of terrestrial vertebrates that have...first to become extinct, dying out at the end of the Cretaceous. Pterosaurs were archosaurs, closely related to dinosaurs, and both groups...
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pterosaur
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pterosaur [Gr.,&thinsp...least 60 genera of pterosaurs have been found...flying apparatus of pterosaurs comprised a membranous...unique to the pterosaur group, attached...now believe that pterosaurs were adapted for...
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Convergence
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...different vertebrate taxa: pterosaurs (extinct flying reptiles...patterns with similar functions. Pterosaurs, like birds, had hollow...analogous to bird feathers. The pterosaur wing was supported primarily...surface area to the wing. In pterosaurs and bats the digits are elongated...
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Solnhofen lithographic limestone fauna
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...including the wing membranes of pterosaurs (flying reptiles) and the...organisms such as dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the earliest bird...of skeletal material. Some pterosaurs, such as the small form Pterodactylus...As the Archaeopteryx and pterosaur skeletons are generally complete...
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Flight
Book article from: Biology
...tens of millions of years before the pterosaurs (extinct flying dinosaurs), and hundreds...vertebrates at least three times: in pterosaurs, birds, and bats. Although scientists know that pterosaurs, like bats, flew on wings consisting...
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