Most paleontologists regard birds as the only surviving dinosaurs ( see Origin of birds ).

Most of these creations themselves contained hidden surprises such as clock-work birds, or miniature ships.

Most other branches of life remained relatively unchanged in comparison to birds and mammals during this period.

Most have been produced by scaling modern animals such as bats and birds up to Pteranodon size, despite the fact that pterosaurs have vastly different body proportions and soft tissue anatomy than any living animal.

Most animals that lay eggs, such as birds and reptiles, including most ovoviviparous species, have an oviduct instead of a uterus.

Most birds of prey sport eyes on the sides of their heads, but the stereoscopic nature of the owl's forward-facing eyes permits the greater sense of depth perception necessary for low-light hunting.

Most collectibles are man-made commercial items, but some private collectors collect natural objects such as birds ' eggs, butterflies, rocks, and seashells.

Most passerine birds develop twelve tail feathers, though the Superb Lyrebird has sixteen.

Most of their diets consist of fish, but can also include crayfish, frogs, ducklings, snakes, muskrats, mice, other small mammals, and small birds.

Most Charadriiformes live near water and eat invertebrates or other small animals ; however, some are pelagic ( sea birds ), some occupy deserts and a few are found in thick forest.

Most observed effects are due not to toxicity, but to habitat changes and the decreases in abundance of species on which birds rely for food or shelter.

Most birds of prey also have strong curved talons for catching or killing prey.

Most mammals find this unpleasant, whereas birds are unaffected.

Most are found only on specific types of animals, and, in some cases, only to a particular part of the body ; some animals are known to host up to fifteen different species, although one to three is typical for mammals, and two to six for birds.

Most habitat types are occupied, from tundra to rainforest and deserts, although they are generally more birds of open country and even forest species tend to prefer broken forest and forest edges.

Most of the species in the family are monogamous, and both parents care for the young, sometimes with the assistance of other birds in the colony, a behavior considered unusual for birds.

Most birds scoop or draw water into the buccal areas of their bills, raising and tilting their heads back to drink ( an exception is the common pigeon which can suck in water directly by inhalation ).

Most national emblems originate in the natural world, such as animals or birds, but another object may serve.

Most are arboreal birds, but the large ground-hornbills ( Bucorvus ), as their name implies, are terrestrial birds of open savanna.

Most mistletoe seeds are spread by birds, such as the Mistle Thrush in Europe, the Phainopepla in southwestern North America, and Dicaeum of Asia and Australia.

Most storks eat frogs, fish, insects, earthworms, small birds and small mammals.

Most avant-garde creators, true to their interest in the self-sufficiency of pure movement, have tended to dress their dancers in simple lines and solid colors ( often black ) and to give them a bare cyclorama for a setting.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

) Most people would have to hire a contractor to build this shelter.

Most of Billy Haughton's 2-year-olds have worked from 2:40 to 2:35.

Most drill presses have a quill return spring that raises the spindle automatically when the feed lever is released and holds the quill in the raised position.

Most counties also have maps available from the county engineer showing roads and other features and from the assessor's office showing ownerships of land.

Most Europeans have been exercising newborn infants for centuries.

Most professors in the course must, naturally, again have a higher degree than the course offers.

Most others have been content to give only the most general attention to the broadest and most obvious features of the phonology when designing orthographies.

Most of this testimony may have been legally admissible as bearing on the corpus delicti of the total Nazi crime but seemed subject to question when not tied to the part in it of the defendant's Department of Jewish Affairs.

Most of our largest cities have one or more separate vocational or technical high schools.

Most adolescents have some ideological diffusion at various developmental stages, as they experience a proliferation of ideas and values.

Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

Most have four limbs and live in fresh water or on land but the caecilians, though included in the group, live in burrows in damp soil and are limbless.

Most amphibians lay their eggs in water and have aquatic larvae that undergo metamorphosis to become terrestrial adults.

Most alkali metals have many different applications.

Most such printed sources have been updated for intervals of only about every fifty years ( e. g., J1900, J1950, J2000 ).

* Most monocots are unable to thicken their stems once they have formed, since they lack the cylindrical meristem present in other angiosperm groups.

Most aquatic species have a totally submerged juvenile phase, and flowers are either floating or emergent.

Most of the physical properties of astatine have been estimated ( by interpolation or extrapolation ), using various theoretically-grounded or empirically-derived methods.

Most of them have mitred abbots.

Most do not enter the World to Come immediately, but now experience a period of review of their earthly actions and they are made aware of what they have done wrong.

Most Orthodox siddurim ( prayerbooks ) have a prayer asking for forgiveness for one's sins that one may have committed in this gilgul or a previous one.