Sentences with phrase «flap over bird»

The flap over bird fingers has been going on for more than a century.

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Archaeopteryx doesn't have several features considered essential to flight in modern birds, such as a keeled breastbone to which several important flight muscles attach; a ball - and - socket arrangement that allows the wing to flap fully up over the back and down again; and a muscle pulley system that links chest and shoulder muscles, allowing the birds to swiftly alternate between powerful downstrokes and upstrokes.

Flap running was over 10 times more energy efficient than flying, the team reports online today in The Journal of Experimental Biology, creating just enough aerodynamic force to push the birds» bodies upward while also supporting some of their body weight.

The albatross's ability to fly for thousands of kilometres over oceans with barely a flap of its wings has inspired the concept of a diminutive, ship - launched spotter plane that flies great distances by employing some of the bird's lift - generating techniques.

Over the last year there has been much rejoicing over a snippet of videotape that shows a large bird flapping through cypress trees in Arkansas's Big WoOver the last year there has been much rejoicing over a snippet of videotape that shows a large bird flapping through cypress trees in Arkansas's Big Woover a snippet of videotape that shows a large bird flapping through cypress trees in Arkansas's Big Woods.

Silva's birds take flight over gleaming horizons with impossible geometries, flapping their wings with imaginary physics and stunning the viewer with beguiling colors and textures.