The French Exit the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica ❋ Unknown (2009)
Connecticut footsteps were made by very ornithic reptiles, or extremely sauroid birds. ❋ St. George Mivart (N/A)
Professor Huxley, are the pointing out of this very difficulty, and the calling his attention to the striking resemblance between certain teeth of the dog and of the thylacine as one instance, and certain ornithic peculiarities of pterodactyles as another. ❋ St. George Mivart (N/A)
Thus, for example, we have the convoluted windpipe of the sloth, reminding us {83} of the condition of the windpipe in birds; and in another mammal, allied to the sloth, namely the great ant-eater (Myrmecophaga), we have again an ornithic character in its horny gizzard-like stomach. ❋ St. George Mivart (N/A)
Finally, he has thrown out the suggestion that the celebrated footsteps left by some extinct three-toed creatures on the very ancient sandstone of Connecticut were made, not, as hitherto supposed, by true birds, but by more or less ornithic reptiles. ❋ St. George Mivart (N/A)
Yet the interval between them is completely filled, in the mesozoic fauna, by birds which have reptilian characters, on the one side, and reptiles which have ornithic characters, on the other. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)
It is curious, considering how much, one way or another, we are amused or pleased by the chatter and song of birds, that you will scarcely find in any ornithic manual more than a sentence, if so much, about their hearing; and I have not myself, at this moment, the least idea where a nightingale's ears are! ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
America, the traveler from the United States recognizes few ornithic forms in the Valley of Quito. ❋ James Orton (1853)
His opinion as to the ornithic character of the remains was afterwards confirmed by ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
Every claw and phalange has left its mark in the stone; while the trifid termination of the tarso-metatarsal bone leaves three marks more, -- fifteen in all, -- the true ornithic number. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
Connecticut that measure eighteen inches in length from the heel to the middle claw, nearly thirteen inches in breadth from the outer to the inner toe, and which indicate, from their distance apart in the straight line, a stride of about six feet in the creature that impressed them in these ancient sands, -- measurements that might well startle zoologists who had derived their experience of the ornithic class from existing birds exclusively. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
But the immense size of some of these footprints served to militate for a time against belief in their ornithic origin. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
An interesting memoir on the probable geological position and age of the ornithic bone deposits of New Zealand, by Dr. Mantell, based on the observations of his enterprising son, it published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (1848). ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
Starting in the town of Kassel, 33-year-old Pia Marie Witt, 58-year-old Wilfried Arnold and their ornithic companions will swim down the Fulda and Weser rivers, hoping to reach the North ❋ Unknown (2010)
The sloths and armadilloes of South America had their gigantic predecessors in the enormous megatherium and mylodon, and the strongly armed glyptodon; the kangaroos and wombats of Australia had their extinct predecessors in a kangaroo nearly twice the size of the largest living species, and in so huge a wombat, that its bones have been mistaken for those of the hippopotamus; and the ornithic inhabitants of New Zealand had their predecessors in the monstrous birds, such as the dinornis, the aptornis, and the palapteryx, -- wingless creatures like the ostrich, that stood from six to twelve feet in height. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
Dr. Mantell concludes that the islands of New Zealand were densely peopled at a period geologically recent, though historically remote, by tribes of gigantic brevi-pennate birds allied to the ostrich tribe, all, or almost all, of species and genera now extinct; and that, subsequently to the formation of the most ancient ornithic deposit, the sea-coast has been elevated from fifty to one hundred feet above its original level; hence the terraces of shingle and loam which now skirt the maritime districts. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
Professor Huxley, are the pointing out of this very difficulty, and the calling his attention to the striking resemblance between certain teeth of the dog, and of the thylacine, as one instance, and certain ornithic peculiarities of pterodactyles as another. "[ ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
[Wow], she’s such an Ornith. ❋ Meh.may (2021)
