Brazil’s oldest bird fossil
The animal had feathers, the size and the delicacy
of a hummingbird, but with some crucial differences: a
beak full of teeth and a pair of huge tail feathers, for
example. It is Brazil’s oldest bird, whose fossil remains
5 date back to 115 million years ago, and was discovered
in the interior of the State of Ceará.
There were already indications that birds, or maybe
feathered dinosaurs, had lived in the area currently known
as Chapada do Araripe because isolated feathers had
10 been found before in the rocks of the region. The new
fossil, however, should bring much more accurate data
on the evolution of birds, as the entire animal is preserved
with articulated skeleton, soft tissues (like tendons),
feathers and pigments.
15 The fossil discovery is described in an article in the
scientific journal “Nature Communications”, written by a
group of Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists led by
Ismar Carvalho, from the Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro, and Fernando Novas, from the Argentine Museum
20 of Natural history.
Carvalho explains that, for now, the team chose
not to give a formal scientific name to the fossil. For the
time being, it is certain the animal belongs to the group
Enantiornithes, primitive birds characterized, in most
25 cases, by the presence of teeth, which show that they
are “daughters” of carnivorous dinosaurs. Enantiornithes
have no living descendants today – modern birds descend
from another group: the Euornithes.
Brazil’s northeastern plateau is rich in spectacularly
30 preserved fossils, in particular those of pterosaurs (flying
reptiles), but this is the first bird found there and the
most complete of all Gondwana supercontinent, which
incorporated South America, India, Africa and Antarctica
in the era of the dinosaurs.
BRAZIL’S oldest bird fossil. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 8 maio 2016. Translated by Juliana Calderari.
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“Enantiornithes have no living descendants today” (l. 26-27)
This sentence can be exactly rephrased as
Enantiornithes _______ living descendants today.
The alternative that completes this blank correctly is
A
mustn’t have had many.
B
can’t have lots of.
C
didn’t use to have.
D
have a few.
E
don’t have any.
Soluções para a tarefa
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Respostar:
Resposta certa sera E
Explicação:
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Resposta:
E don't have any
Explicação:
Enantiornithes have no living decendants today.
A espécie não tem nenhum decendente vivo atualmente.
Enantiornithes don't have any living decendants today.
dodon't have any tem o sentido negativo e no presente, que é o que a tradução precisa.
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