How To Use Furcula In A Sentence
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Photodilus seem not to have been investigated, but it has been found to want the tarsal loop, as well as the manubrial process, while its clavicles are not joined in a furcula, nor do they meet the keel, and the posterior margin of the sternum has processes and fissures like the tawny section.
The Country House
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Archaeopteryx was a true bird, because it had a birdlike skull, perching foot, fully-formed flight feathers, a modern-looking elliptical wing, a furcula and avian lung design.
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Furcular fat is known to correlate positively with total body fat composition.
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The furcula, a fused clavicle, serves as a brace during the flight stroke; it's visible in the pictures above as a large Y-shaped bone ahead of the sternum.
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This fat is laid down primarily in the furcular region as illustrated at right, but also forms at other locations of the body - including along the flanks where the legs attach to the body.
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Well, it is actually a wishbone, the furcula is the wishbone and it is made up of the clavicles fused together in the middle.
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The photo below was taken in attempts to show the powder down feathers which outline the furcular hollow and are unique to herons and bitterns (the yellow feathers near the bottom of the photo that form a ‘V’).
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The wishbone, called a furcula, is the fusion of two collarbones at the sternum.
Livescience.com
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The furcular hollow is more than full; that is, the fat is bulging slightly above the furculum.
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Among other features, birds have a structure that they share with dromaeosaurs: a fused clavicle called the furcula, which serves as a brace during the flight stroke.
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- Snow fleas, like all springtails, have an unusual appendage (a furcula) that folds under the abdomen and can be used to suddenly propel the insects several inches.
Rich Wolf: Boulder's Heart-Warming Fleas
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He read about the construction and habits of the owl: "In the tawny, or brown, owl there is a manubrial process; the furcula, far from being joined to the keel of the sternum, consists of two stylets, which do not even meet; while the posterior margin of the sternum presents two pairs of projections, with corresponding fissures between.
The Country House
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Such analyses have shown that some features considered to be typically avian, such as the furcula, first appeared in carnivorous dinosaurs.
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It is produced by the bird inflating its furcular air sac; the calling bird visibly deflates as the vocalization progresses.
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Mucrones: in Collembola the two small end pieces of the furcula, proceeding from the dentes.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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But clavicles are now known from a variety of nonavian dinosaurs, and a fused furcula is present in several nonavian theropods, including allosauroids and tyrannosaurids.
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In a barb, which in all its measurements was a little larger than the same rock-pigeon, the furcula was a quarter of an inch shorter.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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But Archaeopteryx was very likely capable of powered fligh sic judging from its relatively massive furcula and the asymmetric rachis of its primary flight feathers Feduccia and Tordoff 1979; Olson and Feduccia 1979.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb
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To obtain each fat sample, birds were anesthetized by intramuscular injection with ketamine-rompun and a 2 mm incision was made in the skin overlying the furcular cavity.
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As the neotheropods emerged as a separate group, they shared an important ‘birdlike’ trait - the furcula, often (in birds) called the wishbone.
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The processes at the summit of the _coracoid_, which receive the extremities of the furcula, form a more perfect cavity in some tumblers than in the rock-pigeon: in pouters these processes are larger and differently shaped, and the exterior angle of the extremity of the coracoid, which is articulated to the sternum, is squarer.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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We detected no differences in the composition of fatty acids in furcular fat, subcutaneous fat, and intraperitoneal fat.
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These arthropods have a fork-like structure (called furcula) at the hind end that is hooked under their abdomen.
Durangoherald.com
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But Archaeopteryx was very likely capable of powered fligh sic judging from its relatively massive furcula and the asymmetric rachis of its primary flight feathers Feduccia and Tordoff 1979; Olson and Feduccia 1979.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb
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Wing chord length, weight, and a furcular fat score were also determined.
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In the pectoral girdle, fused clavicles, or a furcula, are now known in many theropods.
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I would like to see if the furcula, or wishbone, is present.
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However, its feathers, wings, furcula and reduced fingers are all characteristics of modern birds.
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I took 2 photos of it before it deployed its furcula and disappeared into thin air.
Springtail before it sprung away
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Other relatively predictable adaptations are the development of an obtuse angle between the scapula and coracoid and the loss of the furcula.