Sentences with phrase «flightless feathers»

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

The island is known for being the one - time home of that most famous of extinct animals, the poor old dodo, and while there's no hope for the flightless feathered one, Mauritius is home to a wealth of tropical wildlife, with efforts being made to protect and preserve local biodiversity.

Not exact matches

It had feathers and a beak - like a bird, but it was flightless.

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.

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.

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

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

The filamentary feathers gave the impression that it was flightless, but the rod - like bones sticking out from the wrists were a puzzle.

So why did the flightless creatures have feathers?

This wildlife - filled archipelago, hundreds of miles off Ecuador's shores, has long tempted thrill - seekers and photography enthusiasts with its pods of sea lions, flightless cormorants, the world's only seafaring lizards, and short - feathered penguins that dart casually across the equator.