Sentences with phrase «flightless island»
And with its feathers and bones looking so much like modern flightless island birds, it just makes me wonder,» says Habib.
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They are all flightless beetles and most of them endemic (living exclusively in one geographic location) to a single island of the archipelagos of Madeira, Selvagens and the Canary Islands (17 islands in Islands (17 islands in islands in total).
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.
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.
A familiar story, this flightless bird's habitat was limited to a single island — King Island off the coast of Austisland — King Island off the coast of AustIsland off the coast of Australia.
His menagerie included a flock of flightless kiwis from New Zealand (which accompanied him to Cambridge when he arrived as a university student in 1887), 144 giant tortoises imported from the Galápagos Islands, a sheep - size South American rodent called a capybara, as well as wild asses, spiny and scaly anteaters, emus, and kangaroos.
The flightless cormorant is one of a diverse array of animals that live on the Galapagos Islands, which piqued Charles Darwin's scientific curiosity in the 1830s.
The Mauritius Dodo more commonly just dodo, was a metre - high (three - foot) flightless bird of the island of Mauritius.
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.
The flightless, carnivorous terror birds — that s what scientists call them — likely hopped to North America via islands that came to form what is today the Isthmus of Panama.
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 inIsland 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 inisland (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island inIsland in 2001.
The Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) or «land lobster» is a large, flightless stick insect that was, until recently, thought to be extinct.
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 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.
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.
The story is set on an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds — or almost entirely.
Three flightless birds (Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride) investigate the mysterious arrival of green pigs to their island paradise.
In The Angry Birds Movie, there's an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds — or almost entirely.
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.
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.
As you would expect from an island with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo pisland with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo pIsland kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo parrot.
There are chances to observe the Southern Royal Albatross, Northern Giant Petrel, Auckland Island Shag, Auckland Island Flightless Teal, Auckland Island Banded Dotterel, Auckland Island Tomtit, Bellbird, Pipit, Red - crowned Parakeet, Yellow - eyed Penguin and Light - mantled Sooty Albatross.
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.
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.
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 huIsland 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 huisland, but extinct since 1844 due to excessive hunting.
It was bad enough that this irreplaceable species, Raphus cucullatus, was quickly driven to extinction in the 17th century thanks to man's folly — the flightless birds that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean were last seen in 1662 — but the poor things have also suffered the fate of a maligned legacy.