step:看单词(复习了前2天的4个list的单词,看了就忘啊

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Birds are sometimes referr
ed to as glorif
ied rept
iles and even no modern birds ar structurally very different from reptiles. some show min
or evidence from their ancestry like
scales on their feet, or
claws on their
toes. However, flying repiles dis appeared more than 70 million years ago, but birds obviously managed to surv
ive. You remember that the biological success on any group organism is mea
sured by, the number of the
species(总是听不出来
), the individuals in the group, there are
distribution up(分配) the world and of course their ability to adapt to all kinds of environmental condistions. On the basis of this
criteria birds are considered one of the most successful
vertebrates in modern times. Their success means that they were probably not only better adaptd in reptile for fly
ing but also for life on land and
on water. But when did these
glorifications begin, and how fast the changes occur. It was seen logical to
assume that at some time million years ago transitional stages between reptiles and the birds
existed and
in fact one of the most important
clues(总是听不出) came with the discovery of the fossil called
Archaeopteryx(始祖鸟"古代生物"), which
literally means ancient bird.. The Archaeopteryx
dated back 150 million years to the
Jurassic period(侏罗纪). fortunately the fossil not only included the skel
eton but also impression of the
feathers(总是听不出?
) of the wings and the double rare tail festhers. If it were not for these feathers scientists would class
ified it as a reptile, because they had many characteristics more like a
lizard than a bird. Archaeopteryx is not, however, considered the ancestor of the modern bird. But it probably
was derived from (源自于)the ancestor from and also gave rise to modern birds. Up
until the mid 1980's the Archaeopteryx were considered the most ancient of all birds. Then in 1986, a fossil was discoverd called
Protoavis(没查出意思,但是不会影响答题) that shows the nature of dinosaurs and bird-like characteristics. But it lived 225 million years ago, about 75 million years before the Araeopteryx so clearly the final world is not at in the orig
inal birds.
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