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

Most surviving pre-modern manuscripts use the codex format ( as in a modern book ), which had replaced the scroll by Late Antiquity.

Most surviving PDP-8s are from this era.

Most of the surviving crew of 1, 150 were interned in Uruguay and Argentina and many remained after the war.

Most valuable of all from a text-critical perspective is the Vulgate text of the Apocalypse, a book where there is no clear majority text in the surviving Greek witnesses.

Most inferences about him are extracted from his only surviving work De Architectura.

Most often it was transcribed phonetically using Chinese characters, as is the case with the only surviving copies of The Secret History of the Mongols.

Most of the Thracians were eventually Hellenized or Romanized, with the last remnants surviving in remote areas until the 5th century.

Most surviving CCP members were relocated to the Communist base in Jiangxi.

Most surviving BP stations are kept so BP can continue holding the trademarks for Amoco and Standard.

Most fish that have evolved in this harsh environment are not capable of surviving in laboratory conditions, and attempts to keep them in captivity have led to their deaths.

Most surviving Archean rocks are metamorphic or igneous.

Most trading wherries were clinker-built, but Albion, surviving today, was the sole example to be carvel-built.

Most of the surviving houses are 18th-century or earlier in construction.

Most functional and sought-after of these machines are cast-iron, pedal-operated devices manufactured beginning in the 1880s by bindery equipment makers like F. P Rosback Co. and Latham Machinery Co. Rosback also produced table-top perforators, but surviving models are exceedingly rare.

Most of the surviving Beaubear's Island refugees soon left the Miramichi, seeking refuge in Quebec.

Most surviving tiaras are on display in the Vatican, though some were sold off or donated to Catholic bodies.

Most of the surviving triple tiaras have the shape of a circular beehive, with its central core made of silver.

Most surviving Byzantine manuscripts begin with the third Hymn.

Most of the ostracoderms, such as thelodonts, osteostracans, and galeaspids, were more closely related to the gnathostomes than to the surviving agnathans, known as cyclostomes.

Most surviving armored cruisers from this conflict were scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which imposed limits on warships and defined a cruiser as a ship of 10, 000 tons or less carrying guns of 8-inch caliber or less — rather smaller than many of the large armored cruisers.

Most notably, the relationship of the picine genera has been largely clarified, and it was determined that the Antillean Piculet is a surviving offshoot of proto-woodpeckers.

Most of the surviving Athenian soldiers were sent to work as slave laborers in the Sicilian quarries, which were death traps.

Most species hibernate for at least half the year, surviving on fat that they build up in the weeks prior to going to sleep.

Most specimens showed no sign of disease.

Most of these devices are beam type specimens.

Most hospitals have a computer-controlled pneumatic tube system to deliver drugs, documents and specimens to and from laboratories and nurses ' stations.

Most have been reported in Indian cheetahs, particularly in captive specimens kept for hunting.

Most apparent, in hand specimens, is that amphiboles form oblique cleavage planes ( at around 120 degrees ), whereas pyroxenes have cleavage angles of approximately 90 degrees.

Most physicians and surgeons who perform vasectomies recommend one ( sometimes two ) post-procedural semen specimens to verify a successful vasectomy ; however many men fail to return for verification tests citing inconvenience, embarrassment, forgetfulness, or certainty of sterility.

Most Marrella specimens herald from the ' Marrella bed ', a thin horizon, but it is common in most other outcrops of the shale.

Most of its fins ( dorsal, pectoral, pelvic, and caudal ) have white tips ( juvenile specimens and some adults may lack these ).

Most data about pygmy right whales come from individual specimens washed up on coastlines ; they are rarely encountered at sea and so they are not the primary subject of any whale watching cruises.

Most tulip trees have low tolerance of drought, although Florida natives ( especially the east central ecotype ) fare better than southeastern coastal plain or northern inland specimens.

Most of the fish in this order are deep-sea types known from only a handful of specimens such as the Umbrella Mouth Gulper Eel.

Most of the few individual specimens studied by scientists were either washed-up individuals whose skin had darkened due to exposure to air or live specimens seen at sea but only at a distance ( and so appeared darker than they were ).

Most photographs of Burmeister's Porpoises are taken of dead specimens and show the animal to be coloured black.

Most herbaria utilize a standard system of organizing their specimens into herbarium cases.

Most of these isolates were from oral or faecal specimens from HIV-positive patients, though one vaginal and two oral isolates were from healthy individuals.

Most of her fossil collection is currently housed at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia after purchase by Thomas Bellerby Wilson though small parts are in many British museums, in particular Leeds City Museum and possibly even in St. Petersburgh ; it contains many type specimens and some of the first fossils found ( and recognized though shortly after her death ) with the soft tissues preserved.

Most garden specimens are of the hybrid between the two species, Laburnum × watereri ( Voss's laburnum ), which combines the longer racemes of L. alpinum with the denser flowers of L. anagyroides ; it also has the benefit of low seed production.

Most studies have been based on only two preserved specimens and research to date has not positively linked the Tarpan to Pleistocene or Holocene-era animals.

Most specimens of A. planci died from ‘ senility ’ during the period 5-7. 5 years, i. e. they fed poorly and shrank.

Most of these later specimens are housed at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, and at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.

Most paintings were made from dead specimens, but many were also drawn from life.

Most, if not all, specimens of the variety ' Afghanica ' are of a single clone, and many botanists therefore treat it as a cultivar rather than a botanical variety.

Most specimens usually reach between 14 to 18 inches ( 35 – 45 cm ).