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Theropod dinosaurs are seen to exhibit too many terrestrial and cursorial adaptations to be avian precursors.
These rabbit-sized animals were among the most cursorial animals of their time, and may have been capable of rabbit-like leaping.
If we figure out that the probable ancestor of a flying group was a bipedal cursorial form, then flight likely evolved from the ground up.
However, the transition from cursorial to aerial locomotion and maneuvering was not as simple as growing large wings.
It has a heavy skull and a massive neck, and it is also by far the shortest-legged and least cursorial canid.
They are highly adapted for cursorial life, their offspring are vulnerable to predation, and adequate den sites are limited.
Ostrom introduced the cursorial predator hypothesis of the origin of avian flight.
Troodontids, judging from their cranial anatomy and cursorial adaptations, were likely agile, fast carnivores with acute senses.
By all three criteria, the skeleton of Caudipteryx falls into the domain of flightless birds rather than the space of cursorial dinosaurs.
Mammals inhabit diverse habitats, radiation of specialized groups such as bats, whales, cursorial mammals, hominoids.
Both species live in early successional habitats and are often the two most abundant cursorial spiders in agricultural systems of the eastern and central United States.
However, whether these elements belong to the wing or hindlimb can reflect the ecology of the living species, i.e., strong fliers versus cursorial or aquatic forms.
Thus, species that are strong fliers with robust wing elements leave bone assemblages richer in forelimb elements than species that tend to be more cursorial.
For example, mass regulation may be important only to flying, climbing, and cursorial animals, while avoidance will not be an option for any sessile or dormant animal.
The Yixian dinosaurs were cursorial, bipedal, and not capable of flight.
Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
Dromaeosaurs were all bipedal, fairly cursorial, and terrestrial.
To facilitate cursorial, or running, habits, flexion is limited to one plane.
The Equidae are highly specialized for a cursorial, herbivorous mode of life.
The traditional cursorial predator hypothesis suggests that the ancestors of birds were active ground-dwelling animals that used their arms in predation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It may well have been the competition of the horses which led to the extinction of these cursorial rhinoceroses.
Those modifications most noticeable in the case of cursorial types may be briefly mentioned as examples.
It cannot be that it is learned by imitation, any more than the exercise of the cursorial powers can be said to be thus acquired.
So far as habits go we might be justified in calling them cursorial birds of prey.
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