Sentences with phrase «flightless bird by»

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

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.

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.

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 invaBirds 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 invabirds 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 entiBirds Movie, there's an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds — or almost entibirds — 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.

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.