sterna
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Examples of "sterna" in Sentences
- Sterna sumatrana feed on small fish.
- Sterna is located between the foothills and the plain.
- Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Sternidae.
- The Inca Tern feeds by plunge diving for fish like a Sterna tern.
- Dando nempe se ipsum dare videndum, et sterna feltcitate fruendum.
- Bo* naventurae. loio cum dicat, bona sterna aliud esse nihil 9 quam Dt*
- Hi autem loquebantur bypotheticei et sub eonditione impossibl - li I unde nunquam habuere actum absolutum efficacem lenuntiationif sterna!
- Out of 141 sterna between the time of birth and the age of sixteen years, Paterson (op. cit.) found the fourth or lowest center for the body present only in thirty-eight casesi. e.,
- In the past there was commercial over-exploitation of the sea cucumbers Isostichopus fuscus and Parastichopus parvimensis, of mother-of-pearl Pinctada mazatlanica and winged oysters Pteria sterna.
- If we combine these bits of information, the logical conclusion is that non-avian theropods were using their sterna and sternal ribs to ventilate their abdominal air-sacs, and here is the avian condition, albeit in less 'extreme' form.
- The idea that birds rely on dorsoventral movement of their sterna, and that a huge sternum and associated mobile, ossified sternal ribs are a requirement for avian-style respiration, has been heavily promoted in other Ruben and colleagues papers
- To their credit, Quick & Ruben (2009) do note that some birds (including kiwis, emus and the extinct elephant birds and mihirungs) have very small sterna that don't extend as far posteriorly as the abdominal air-sacs: these sterna are actually smaller, compared to trunk length, than those of such non-avian saurischians as dromaeosaurs and diplodocoid and macronarian sauropods (Wedel 2007).
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