Sentences with phrase «flightless bird»

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.

A sexless marriage is like a flightless bird, or an eggless omelette, or a rose without scent... It just doesn't seem right, and it's...

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.

The official roundel (circular logo) of the New Zealand Air Force features the kiwi: an indigenous but distinctly flightless bird.

For a holiday that revolves around a flightless bird, it's ironic how much Americans spend on travel for the Thanksgiving holiday.

«As a popular, yet flightless bird, we penguins are used to disappointment.

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.

This large flightless bird can be found in the rainforest surrounding the area and is fascinating to watch.

Known as one of Tropical North Queensland «s most scenic beaches, Etty Bay is truly where the rainforest meets the sea and it's where you can spot Australia's largest flightless bird, the Southern Cassowary.

Keep an eye out for the native Buff Weka, a small, flightless bird with boundless curiosity!

This name was given due to the fact that this is the only country in the world where you can find the Kiwi bird, an endangered flightless bird that is endemic to

Quite a feat for a flightless bird.

There was the sunburn that made lying in a sleeping bag excruciating (that was the hubby), rain that nearly washed our tent off a hill and some sort of large, flightless bird threatening to run into camp and do away with us (raccoons sound a lot like squawking chickens, and yes, that one was all me).

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

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

Attempting to return the flightless bird, he inadvertently adds five more to his brood, with his New York apartment quickly thrown into chaos.

Miss Finch wants to reunite the flightless bird with his adoptive fowl family.

Mr. Popper's Penguins probably has the same effect on anyone who might harbor a fantasy of having a waddling, flightless bird as a pet.

As the name suggests, this oil is extracted from the back fat of the Australian Emu bird (Dromaius novaehallandiae), a flightless bird native to Australia (similar to the ostrich).

The Dromornis murrayi, a 551 - pound flightless bird, now emerges as the earliest ancestor of the Dromornis giant birds.

The Mauritius Dodo more commonly just dodo, was a metre - high (three - foot) flightless bird of the island of Mauritius.

With few trees to obstruct views, it is one of the best places in the country to watch tapir (Tapirus terrestris), giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), and, of course, the greater rhea (Rhea americana), the large flightless bird related to the ostrich which is locally known as «ema» in Portuguese.

A familiar story, this flightless bird's habitat was limited to a single island — King Island off the coast of Australia.

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.

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.

To start, for those of you who may not know what a kiwi is, it's a small nocturnal and flightless bird that's native to New Zealand.

Both are flightless birds that swim.

Vestigial organs (useless organs) are common in whales (legs), flightless birds (wings), snakes (pelvis and lung), and numerous structures in humans (the coccyx, plica semilunaris, and appendix).

Many vestigial structures also exist, showing links back to evolutionary history, like hind limbs on snake fossils, pelvises on modern whales, wings on flightless birds, and tails and extra ribs on humans.

Flightless birds, like ostriches, are more likely to have spherical eggs.

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Many of the flightless birds do not leave eastern Antarctica, and they encounter few migratory birds.

This firm placement of Gastornis as an herbivore suggests that the community structure of Paleocene Europe was different from that found in North America at the time, and may in fact have been quite similar to the later systems seen on islands, such as Madagascar, where large flightless birds filled many different niches.

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

Cooper first compared moa and kiwi DNA to see if the two flightless birds were closely related.

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.

But for the giant flightless birds that once roamed the Australian outback, it was an omelet station what did «em in.

One possibility, the researchers say, is that Zhenyuanlong evolved from dinosaur ancestors that could once fly, similarly to the way that flightless birds like today's ostriches and penguins evolved from flight - capable forebears.

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.

6 Fashion march of the penguins: Thousands of tiny, colorful sweaters have been knit for these flightless birds, to keep them from preening themselves if they are doused in oil from a spill.

Others, such as the marsupial mammals and giant flightless birds, were uniquely Australian.

Examples are flightless birds like the African ostrich and the Australian emu and Southern Beeches, a genus of 36 species of trees and shrubs which appear in temperate forests from South America to Australia and New Zealand.

Mononychus measured up to a metre from its beak to the tip of its tail, but it resembled none of today's large flightless birds — ostriches, rheas, emus, cassowaries and kiwis.

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

For millions of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as moas (Dinornithiformes) thrived in New Zealand.

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.

Earlier finds from Liaoning had hinted at the presence of featherlike structures on several dinosaur specimens, but critics charged that the structures were instead fibers of the protein collagen or that the fossils represented not dinosaurs but flightless birds.

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.

It's about a wealthy Manhattan real estate shark named Popper (Jim Carrey) who is illegally hoarding exotic animals in his high - rise penthouse - a half dozen rare penguins, which he keeps to mollify his entitled children, who whine and pout when he speaks of having the flightless birds removed.

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