Sentences with phrase «by flightless»

The entire northern Atlantic ocean was once fished by a flightless, penguin - like bird, the great auk, until the last ones were killed by 1852.

Not exact matches

This report of secondaries in a larger - bodied, derived, and clearly flightless member of a nonavian theropod clade represented by feathered relatives is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the evolution of feathers.

After the mass extinctions of the Cretaceous, many terrestrial ecosystems were dominated by large flightless birds.

Weta, giant flightless grasshoppers native to New Zealand, ingest and disperse seeds --- an ecological role played by small mammals in other parts of the world.

The dodo represents one of the best - known examples of extinction caused by humans, yet we know surprisingly little about this flightless pigeon from a scientific perspective.

The great auk — a flightless, North Atlantic seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century — is held up as a prime example of the damage done by overzealous museum collectors.

Great Auk Called «the penguin of the north,» these flightless pelagic birds thrived throughout the north Atlantic ocean, but their restriction to a few crowded islands for breeding made them vulnerable to exploitation by humans that reached industrial scale.

In any case, the film, directed with bounce and snap by Mark Waters, stands as a comeback of sorts for Jim Carrey, who mugs and prances and does funny voices and manages not to be upstaged by a half - dozen flightless birds.

The Angry Birds Movie (PG for action and rude humor) Animated adventure, inspired by the video game series of the same name, set on an island inhabited by a flock of flightless birds with anger management issues whose patience is suddenly tested by an overwhelming pig invasion.

The story is set on an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds — or almost entirely.

In The Angry Birds Movie, there's an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds — or almost entirely.

The screenplay was written by newcomer Phil Johnston, of A Thousand Words, Flightless Birds and Ghosts / Aliens previously.

Since some birds are flightless, this not only makes them more threatened by the cats, but also their chicks because they are ground nesters.

In isolation, New Zealand bloomed into a biome of species known nowhere else in the world, including the Moa: huge, flightless birds hunted to extinction by the early peoples.

You can go diving with sharks there,, being surrounded by hundreds of hammerhead sharks or even just snorkel with the insanely unique animals including white - tip reef sharks, sea lion, Galapagos penguins, marina iguanas, flightless cormorant, and much more.

Snorkel with sea lions and observe flightless cormorants, so unthreatened by predators that they have lost the ability to fly.

Of course, he has some great company: Peck, as loyal as he is flightless, and Laura, a rebel who certainly does fly, but only off the handle and who is Robert's love with a capital L, by the way.

While Pit was flightless in the original game, here he is aided by Palutena, the goddess of light, who uses her divine powers to help him soar above the world below.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, has a certain fondness for penguins — the mascot for Linux is Tux the penguin — and has joked that he caught penguinitis, a strong affection for the flightless bird, after getting nipped by one at the National Zoo & Aquarium in Canberra, Australia.