cursorial

• It is perfectly in order for creationists to cite Feduccia's devastating criticism against the idea that birds evolved 'ground up' from running dinosaurs (the cursorial theory). —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• Dial said a lot of "silver-backed biologists" have spent their careers writing untold volumes of work defending the aboreal and cursorial positions.
• "We think our theory is a convergence of thought that's a more complex marriage of the arboreal or cursorial camps," Dial said.
• Megaloceros is consistently being depicted as like a big, shaggy red deer when cave art shows that this giant, highly cursorial animal had a dark shoulder hump, and was mostly light-coloured with horizontal striping on the neck and running along the body (Geist 1999). —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• New Zealand has no indigenous mammalia, but in their place great cursorial birds with but rudimentary wings. —  The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

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