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 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 of the surviving specimens from this period are made entirely of iron, inlaid with designs of silver or other materials, and covered with lacquer.

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 present life forms could not have survived in the Archean atmosphere, which lacked oxygen and an ozone layer.

Most agates occur as nodules in volcanic rocks or ancient lavas where they represent cavities originally produced by the disengagement of volatiles in the molten mass which were then filled, wholly or partially, by siliceous matter deposited in regular layers upon the walls.

Most macroscopic inorganic solids are polycrystalline, including almost all metals, ceramics, ice, rocks, etc.

Most of the beaches consist of either grass, rocks, or the silty sand that also makes up most of the bottom of the lake.

Most achondrites are also ancient rocks, and are thought to represent crustal material of asteroids.

Most rocks, due to their components, have a certain, but low, level of radioactivity.

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

Most of the islands have a bedrock formed from ancient metamorphic rocks and the climate is mild and oceanic.

Most authors presently use the term " mudrock " to refer to all rocks composed dominantly of mud.

Most sedimentary rocks contain either quartz ( especially siliciclastic rocks ) or calcite ( especially carbonate rocks ).

Most of the rocks forming the surface of the present High Atlas were deposited under the ocean at that time.

Most live in freshwater, and form an important component of the algal scum that grows on or near plants, rocks, and various debris.

Most of the fossil echinoids from the Paleozoic era are incomplete, consisting of isolated spines and small clusters of scattered plates from crushed individuals, mostly in Devonian and Carboniferous rocks.

Most of these rocks are clastics ( conglomerate, sandstone, shale ), and there is little or no limestone exposed at the surface.

Most geologists now accept the theory that the older rocks at the center of the uplift are a result of this deep seated igneous activity.

Most crustal rocks formed before 2. 5 billion years ago are located in cratons.

Most young humans have been said to play with whatever they can find, such as pine cones and rocks.

Most commonly, an escarpment is a transition from one series of sedimentary rocks to another series of a different age and composition.

Most of the highest ground is formed by the masses of granite which have been intruded into the Ordovician and Silurian rocks ; the Criffel mass lies about Dalbeattie and Bengairn, another mass extends east and west between the Cairnsmore of Fleet and Loch Ken, another lies northwest and southeast between Loch Doon and Loch Dee and a small mass forms the Cairnsmore of Carsphairn.

Most of the terrain, except for indestructible rocks, may be dug or destroyed by explosions.

Most of the base of the mountain lies in the Tsaté nappe, a remnant of the Piedmont-Liguria oceanic crust ( ophiolites ) and its sedimentary rocks.

Most types of igneous rocks may display some degree of porphyritic texture.

Most types of igneous rocks may display some degree of porphyritic texture.