Sentences with phrase «extinct flightless»

The thick Quaternary deposits on the island's northern sector have all yielded fossil evidence of mammoths, giant mice, whales, sea otters, and an extinct flightless goose.

The Raphinae are a subfamily of extinct flightless birds colloquially called didines or didine birds.

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So, I got to see the bones of this extinct, probably flightless caracara from Jamaica.

Scientists are also close to reconstructing the genomes of the dodo, the flightless bird that went extinct from Mauritius, its only home, in the late 1600s; and the great auk, which lived in the North Atlantic before dying out in the mid-19th century.

Scientists at Harvard University have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that went extinct soon after Polynesians settled New Zealand in the late 13th century.

The man - sized moa has been extinct for two centuries, and the flightless huia for one.

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus), an extinct, giant flightless pigeon once endemic to the island of Mauritius, may arguably be the most widely known animal species to have gone extinct in human history.

Humans have driven thousands of species extinct over the millennia, ranging from moas — giant, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand — to most lemurs in Madagascar.

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.

The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect (Dryococelus australis: Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Eurycanthinae) is a large, flightless stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island in 2001.

The Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) or «land lobster» is a large, flightless stick insect that was, until recently, thought to be extinct.

The Aldabra tortoises in Kauai are there to replace a long - extinct, flightless «tortoise - billed» duck.

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

When I was in the Boy Scouts, I achieved the rank of auk, the now - extinct, flightless bird, through no fault of theirs.

Flightless geese, giant mice, and pygmy mammoths are extinct, while the island fox, spotted skunk, and munchkin dudleya (one of six plant species found only on this island) still live here.

As you would expect from an island with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo parrot.

The island is known for being the one - time home of that most famous of extinct animals, the poor old dodo, and while there's no hope for the flightless feathered one, Mauritius is home to a wealth of tropical wildlife, with efforts being made to protect and preserve local biodiversity.

During the summer of 2017 Coates travelled to Fogo Island to ask for an official apology to be given the Great Auk, a flightless bird once numerous around the island, but extinct since 1844 due to excessive hunting.

Though many species — such as the moa, a giant flightless bird, and the Haast's eagle, with its impressive 10 - foot wing span — have gone extinct since European settlers arrived, countless others remain, such as the kakapo, the world's heaviest parrot (which is also flightless) and the tuatara, a reptile that was a contemporary of the dinosaurs and is now the last of its kind.