In the past there was commercial over-exploitation of the sea cucumbers Isostichopus fuscus and Parastichopus parvimensis, of mother-of-pearl Pinctada mazatlanica and winged oysters Pteria sterna. From Wordnik.com. [Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico] Reference
If we combine these bits of information, the logical conclusion is that non-avian theropods were using their sterna and sternal ribs to ventilate their abdominal air-sacs, and here is the avian condition, albeit in less 'extreme' form. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The idea that birds rely on dorsoventral movement of their sterna, and that a huge sternum and associated mobile, ossified sternal ribs are a requirement for avian-style respiration, has been heavily promoted in other Ruben and colleagues papers. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
In the preface to this article we are presented with the method of arrangement which he intended to have pursued, and which is obviously founded on that of Linnaeus: in fact, the author pro - fesses to deviate from it no further than he conceives himself to be required by the discoveries subsequent to the publication of the Sy sterna. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference
To their credit, Quick & Ruben (2009) do note that some birds (including kiwis, emus and the extinct elephant birds and mihirungs) have very small sterna that don't extend as far posteriorly as the abdominal air-sacs: these sterna are actually smaller, compared to trunk length, than those of such non-avian saurischians as dromaeosaurs and diplodocoid and macronarian sauropods (Wedel 2007). From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
1 8 Repagula sterna disjecime quid obfiftere queat decretis meis: nt - bil ìlla decinere poteritpeque Vos. From Wordnik.com. [Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ...] Reference
Tomasz. sterna.tv. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
Mors sterna tamen, nihilominus ilia manebit. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
sterna said. From Wordnik.com. [Quarter system haiku.] Reference
2 no sterna nostra fxlicitas continetur. From Wordnik.com. [Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ...] Reference
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