Sentences with phrase «flightless birds»

A floor up is a selection of drawings, videos, and installations which continue the theme of flightless birds as a metaphor for rural - to - urban migration.

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.

THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR Flightless birds as spies?

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.

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

«DNA degrades at a certain rate, and it therefore makes sense to talk about a half - life,» says Morten Allentoft at Copenhagen University, Denmark, who together with Mike Bunce at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, extracted DNA from the leg bones of 158 extinct flightless birds called moas.

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.

About 47,000 years ago, newcomer humans to Australia helped to wipe out an enormous flightless bird by collecting and cooking its eggs.

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.

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

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

The story follows an island of flightless birds who are visited by a group of pigs, but despite their claims of friendship a cynical bird named Red suspects that the pigs are up to no good.

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.

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.

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.

Future studies, Kruglyak said, will explore whether other flightless birds, like the ostrich and kiwi, share mutations with the Galapagos cormorant, and whether these genes can help biologists better understand evolution and limb development.

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

The dodo, a three - foot - tall flightless bird with a great big beak, has become a symbol of extinction.

Scientists studying huddles of emperor penguins in Antarctica have discovered that waves of movement travel though huddled masses of flightless birds rather as they do through cars stuck on the 405 Freeway during rush hour — but in ways that maximize the huddle's density and keep the birds warm as they incubate their eggs.

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

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

The other is the New York Zoo's «flightless bird specialist» (Craig Gregg), who, in a move reminiscent of «101 Dalmatians,» is trying to get his hands on the birds for questionable reasons.

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.

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

The story is set on idyllic Bird Island, a tropical paradise inhabited by a variety of very happy flightless birds.

You start things off in a leafy forest where toppling statues and flightless birds attempt to end your journey before it really gets going.

Great auks, flightless birds resembling penguins, were prolific in the icy waters of the northern Atlantic until human hunters, egg collectors, and climate change led to their extinction.

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).

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

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.

These elusive flightless birds can stand up to two metres (6 1/2 feet) tall and are arguably Australia's most spectacular feathered species.

Other tourist attractions include the opportunity to see New Zealand's most treasured flightless bird, the Kiwi.

For example, every Final Fantasy has scenes where the player rides on airships or horse - sized flightless birds called chocobos.

And how can these nearly flightless birds appear so quickly?

And we are not talking about the dowdy little flightless birds that scurry about on the forest floor at night.

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

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

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

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.

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

Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can arrange additional activities such as playing golf, biking through the vineyards, visiting a colony of gannet seabirds, a tour of the Cape Kidnappers sheep and cattle ranch, fly fishing on local streams and visiting a kiwi habitat in search of New Zealand's famous flightless birds.

On the way to his first session, we see that the island is full of happy and flightless birds who greatly contrast Red, who lives outside of the village and has been an angry loner since childhood.

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.

New Zealand itself consists of two islands; both sparsely populated — there are only about 4.5 million people living alongside and a few species of flightless bird you won't find anywhere else — and given it's the fifth largest wholly island nation on earth, there's room to roam aplenty.

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.

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).

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.