Sentences with phrase «for flightless»

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.

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.

Melee cared enough to give a trophy for the flightless angel back in 2001 with a simplistic, cartoonish design that seemed inline with his sprite and the sensibilities of fellow obscure NES representatives, the Ice Climbers.

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.

This is the nesting place for flightless cormorants, the only existing marine birds in the world other than penguins that have changed their mode of flying birds to diving birds.

Quite a feat for a flightless bird.

But after meeting the mighty flying Sven (Hank Azaria) whom he believes is a fellow penguin, Erik determines his dream is to soar through the air — a difficult feat for a flightless aquatic species.

Second, the researchers examined the state of the two groups» family trees at ten - year intervals, beginning in 1790 for the catarrhines and in 1840 for the flightless dinosaurs.

6 Fashion march of the penguins: Thousands of tiny, colorful sweaters have been knit for these flightless birds, to keep them from preening themselves if they are doused in oil from a spill.

Not exact matches

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.

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

The man - sized moa has been extinct for two centuries, and the flightless huia for one.

For murres, «we were able to show that flight costs were much greater than expected... [and] demonstrate the cost of not being flightless.»

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

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.

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 invasion.

This bundle contains 11 ready - to - use Penguin Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Penguins which are flightless birds that make up the scientific order Sphenisciformes and the family Spheniscidae.

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

Laura, Robert, and the flightless pigeon Peck embark on an adventure to find the legendary last wind monk for protecting Asposia from a new threat...

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

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.

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 hunting.

For a holiday that revolves around a flightless bird, it's ironic how much Americans spend on travel for the Thanksgiving holidFor a holiday that revolves around a flightless bird, it's ironic how much Americans spend on travel for the Thanksgiving holidfor the Thanksgiving holiday.