Seabird Evolution and fossil record
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first seabirds evolved in the Cretaceous period, and modern seabird families emerged in the Paleogene. Seabirds generally live longer, breed later and have...
Auk (section Evolution and distribution)wing-propelled, pursuit divers. In the region where auks live, their only seabird competition are cormorants (which are dive-powered by their strong feet)...
Booby (section Systematics and evolution)A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the family Sulidae. Boobies are closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in...
of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies...
Albatross (category Seabirds)the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes...
Cretaceous radiation and the fossil record suggesting a Paleogene radiation. The latest attempts to reconcile the molecular and fossil evidence estimated...
Aethia (section Fossil record)Islands and in Kamtschatka. Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 29. Warheit, Kenneth I. (October 1992). "A review of the fossil seabirds from...
Charadriiformes (category Seabirds)hdl:11336/12701. ISSN 0031-0301. Mayr, Gerald (2016). Avian evolution: the fossil record of birds and its paleobiological significance. Topics in Paleobiology...- Origin of birds (redirect from Dinosaur to Bird Evolution)sufficient to demonstrate that avian evolution went through a four-winged stage. Fossil evidence also demonstrates that birds and dinosaurs shared features such...
Procellariiformes (redirect from Tube-nosed seabird)seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and...
Shearwater (category Seabirds)long-winged seabirds in the petrel family Procellariidae. They have a global marine distribution, but are most common in temperate and cold waters, and are pelagic...
Bird (section Evolution and classification)palaeontology and bird evolution, though the exact definitions applied have been inconsistent. Avialae, initially proposed to replace the traditional fossil content...
Gull (category Seabirds)are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and distantly related to auks, and even...- Molecular clock (category Molecular evolution)dates, such as the fossil record. There are two general methods for calibrating the molecular clock using fossils: node calibration and tip calibration....
- article records new taxa of every kind of fossil archosaur that are scheduled to be described during 2024, as well as other significant discoveries and events...
Mosasaur (section Ontogeny and growth)indicated by stable oxygen isotopes in fossil bioapatite in comparison with coeval marine fish and pelagic seabirds". Palaeontology. 59 (3): 351–363. Bibcode:2016Palgy...
Gaviiformes (section Fossil record)California, Florida and Italy. The conflicting molecular data regarding their relationships is not much resolved by the fossil record; though they seem...
Pelican (section Fossil record)(1985). "Faunal Turnover in South American Fossil Avifaunas: the Insufficiencies of the Fossil Record". Evolution. 39 (5): 1174–77. doi:10.2307/2408747. JSTOR 2408747...
Great auk (category Fossil taxa described in 1900)the genus Alca, following Linnaeus. The fossil record (especially the sister species, Pinguinus alfrednewtoni) and molecular evidence show that the three...
Frigatebird (redirect from National bird of Antigua and Barbuda)Frigatebirds are a family of seabirds called Fregatidae which are found across all tropical and subtropical oceans. The five extant species are classified...
- inhabited the Islet au Mât, and fed on seabirds' eggs and dead turtle. The bird evidently became extinct on Rodriguez before 1730, and lingered a little longer
- marine mammals and birds. Seabirds are the most threatened bird group, with a 70 % community-level population decline between 1950 and 2010. William E