Sentences with phrase «flightless living»

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

It's possible that millions of years of flightless living created gradual changes in the brain structure.

Not exact matches

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.

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 total).

He's talking about a flightless caracara, like a bird of prey that can't fly, but lived in Jamaica.»

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.

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.

In life, Samrukia may have resembled an albatross if it could fly, and an ostrich if it was flightless (two possibilities envisioned in silhouette in this speculative restoration) though paleontologists have a few more bones to pick before they can be sure.

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.

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.

These flightless animals live on the Antarctic ice and in the frigid surrounding waters.

There are about 500 elephants living in the park, sharing it with lion, buffalo, rhino, leopard, countless antelope, ostrich, wild cats, wild dogs and even the Flightless Dung Beetle, which is unique to this area

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.

Stéphanie Jenouvrier, a biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, and colleagues from France and the Netherlands report in Nature Climate Change that changes in the extent and thickness of sea ice will create serious problems for a flightless, streamlined, survival machine that can live and even breed at minus 40 °C, trek across 120 kilometres of ice, and dive to depths of more than 500 metres.

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.