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  2. Dahlia - Wikipedia

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    Many of the species of dahlias then, and now, have single-flowered blooms. D. coccinea, the third dahlia to bloom in Europe, was a single. But two of the three drawings of dahlias by Dominguez, made in Mexico between 1570 and 1577, showed definite characteristics of doubling.

  3. Origin of birds - Wikipedia

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    The scientific question of within which larger group of animals birds evolved has traditionally been called the "origin of birds". The present scientific consensus is that birds are a group of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs that originated during the Mesozoic era.

  4. List of Dahlia species - Wikipedia

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    There are 42 accepted species of flowering plants in the genus Dahlia, according to The Plant List. [1] The sectional classification of Dahlia sensu Sørensen (1969) [ 2 ] as updated by Saar et al. (2003) [ 3 ] and Hansen (2004) [ 4 ] and (2008) [ 5 ] is as follows (excluding infraspecific taxa);

  5. When to Plant Dahlias for the Most Beautiful Blooms ... - AOL

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    Dahlias will not come back in growing zones 6 and under, which is almost half of the US. “Those areas can have soil that freezes during the winter and that will turn the tubers to mush," says ...

  6. Evolution of birds - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of birds began in the Jurassic Period, with the earliest birds derived from a clade of theropod dinosaurs named Paraves. [1] Birds are categorized as a biological class , Aves. For more than a century, the small theropod dinosaur Archaeopteryx lithographica from the Late Jurassic period was considered to have been the earliest bird.

  7. Evolution of reptiles - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of birds is thought to have begun in the Jurassic Period, with the earliest birds derived from theropod dinosaurs. Birds are categorized as a biological class, Aves. The earliest known species in Aves is Archaeopteryx lithographica, from the Late Jurassic period. Modern phylogenetics place birds in the dinosaur clade Theropoda.

  8. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event eradicates about half of all animal species, including mosasaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ammonites, belemnites, rudist and inoceramid bivalves, most planktic foraminifers, and all of the dinosaurs excluding the birds. [101] 66 Ma-

  9. The Origin of Birds - Wikipedia

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    The Origin of Birds is an early synopsis of bird evolution written in 1926 by Gerhard Heilmann, a Danish artist and amateur zoologist.The book was born from a series of articles published between 1913 and 1916 in Danish, and although republished as a book it received mainly criticism from established scientists and got little attention within Denmark.