Sentences with word «flightless»

Penguins are a species of flightless bird found in the Mario franchise.

The researchers sequenced the genomes of flightless cormorants and three other cormorant species to zero in on genetic changes possibly linked to flight.

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.

This is the nesting place for flightless cormorants, the only existing marine birds in the world other than penguins that have changed their mode of flying birds to diving birds.

Yet the family tree for flightless dinosaurs, which palaeontologists began to construct with the discovery of the first dinosaur fossil in 1840, is still pretty patchy.

The scientists looked at DNA from a leg bone of a giant flightless bird called a moa.

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

See the biggest marine iguanas mingling with sally - lightfoot crabs, as well as flightless cormorants nesting sites, Galapagos penguins and the «King» of predators on the islands, the Galapagos hawk.

On the other hand, Habib says, its wings could still have helped it jump down from ledges or run up steep inclines, so - called «wing assisted» behaviors seen in flightless birds today.

And a second paper this week brings dinosaur feathers vividly to life, offering new clues to why this instrument of flight first evolved in flightless creatures.

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.

Watch flightless dung beetles (Circellium bacchus), sneaky copulators and crap connoisseurs, do their thing in South Africa.

Chewbacca, the fictional «Star Wars» character, has given his name to a new species of flightless beetle, discovered in New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

The web - footed, flightless little birds almost destroy his pristine Park Avenue apartment (he has to keep paying the doorman off and lying to his neighbors, as well as fight off an evil zoo keeper, Clark Gregg, «Thor «-RRB-, but he keeps them around because they're a tool to get his family back.

Many flightless living birds display these feathers, but they are only one small part of a multipart flight apparatus.

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

The lancewood tree changes its appearance twice in its lifetime — an adaptation, a new study suggests, that prevented it from being eaten by flightless moas.

And with its feathers and bones looking so much like modern flightless island birds, it just makes me wonder,» says Habib.

The birds were also flightless.

«We have to remember it appears 10 million years or so after the oldest known bird - like dinosaurs and so our famous «first bird» may really be a secondarily flightless one.»

Locally called the po - po - xium (po - po schlum), this insect looks like a cross between and green cricket and a green flightless wasp.

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.

DODO birds were all birds of a feather... flightless feathers!

Publisher: Nintendo Platforms: 3DS After Pit's reveal as a playable character in «Super Smash Bros Brawl» in E3 2008's trailer, fans have speculated that Nintendo would announce a game featuring the usually - flightless angel.

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.

New Zealand was home to nine species of flightless moa until humans arrived around AD 1300.

Here you can find the bones of moa - nalo, the giant flightless ducks that once ruled Hawaii.

In doing so, he found that the creature's traits were surprisingly similar to those of modern flightless birds such as rails and grebes that frequently dwell on islands.

It was clearly an antpitta — a class of notoriously secretive and nearly - flightless insect eaters from the forests of Latin America.

The government of New Zealand is desperately trying to save what is left of its world - famous 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.

Likewise, before humans arrived in Australia 50,000 years ago, the outback was home to 660 - pound claw - footed kangaroos, giant wombats, and the 220 - pound flightless Genyornis, the heaviest bird ever known.

But not without the troubles that bored flightless birds in a confined space bring.

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.

If scientists could find a lot more dodo DNA, they might be able to identify the genetic variations that turned the ancestors of dodos — small, flying pigeons — into big flightless birds.

This modern - day Eden is home to a plethora of plants and animals, including the Kakapo — the world's only flightless parrot.

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

So freed from weight constraints, they evolved into flightless giants.

The ancient samples helped him to piece together where flightless birds came from and how they ended up in places such as Australia, New Zealand and Africa.

We've seen the Conservative Party coming out against a new Heathrow runway, we've seen anti-aviation protesters scaling the Parliament building, and we've even seen flightless penguins joining the flying and climate change debate.

Burga and colleagues compared DNA of flightless Galápagos cormorants with that of their close relatives, including double - crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus), which have large wings and can fly.

One hypothetical menu: A bear in the «absolute worst condition» could subsist on about 2.5 egg clutches and a gosling or two a day, 47 or so flightless adult geese per season and a handful of caribou.

Flightless Beibeilong sinensis, which lived around 90 million years ago, had feathers, primitive wings and a beak, but dwarfed any of its modern bird relatives.

It is a land of odd creatures: giant anteaters, tapirs, maned wolves, the llama - like guanaco, flightless rheas as tall as I am, and as many as 10 species of armadillo.

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.

He mentioned, in this one little sentence in the paper, bones from this very large, possibly flightless caracara from Jamaica, but doesn't provide any more description than that.

These birds had extremely reduced forelimbs and powerful hind limbs, suggesting that they were flightless sea - going predatory birds.

Then, conservationists lobbied for delaying mowing dates to later in the year, which gave flightless corncrake chicks more time to escape their nests and increased time for breeding.