Sentences with phrase «in flightless»

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.

In the flightless Orai mutant flies, SOCE was inhibited in a set of cells called «dopaminergic interneurons» — nerve cells that used dopamine to relay signals.

Not exact matches

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).

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

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).

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.

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.

«I am wary to call Archaeopteryx secondarily flightless, since we do not yet know if its ancestors could fly,» says Ashley Heers, a biologist at the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield, UK.

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

Moas were tall, flightless, and evidently tasty: In the space of 300 years, the native Maori had wiped them out.

He mentioned, in this one little sentence in the paper, bones from this very large, possibly flightless caracara from Jamaica, but doesn't provide any more description than that.

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.

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.

EARLY BIRD The flightless dinosaur - like bird Archaeopteryx could glide, as seen in this artist's illustration.

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

Scientists at Harvard University have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that went extinct soon after Polynesians settled New Zealand in the late 13th century.

Flies with the genetic defect act normally after they hatch and fly around, but in a few weeks, due to muscle degeneration, they are flightless.

In an evolutionary novelty, a flightless prehistoric bird found only in Jamaica used its weighty wing bones to clobber rivals during territorial disputeIn an evolutionary novelty, a flightless prehistoric bird found only in Jamaica used its weighty wing bones to clobber rivals during territorial disputein Jamaica used its weighty wing bones to clobber rivals during territorial disputes.

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.

Weta, giant flightless grasshoppers native to New Zealand, ingest and disperse seeds --- an ecological role played by small mammals in other parts of the world.

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 researchers sequenced the genomes of flightless cormorants and three other cormorant species to zero in on genetic changes possibly linked to flight.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 surIn 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 surin silhouette in this speculative restoration) though paleontologists have a few more bones to pick before they can be surin 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.

It provides evidence that the flying reptiles were born flightless, needed looking after and that their parents nested in colonies.

Chewbacca, the fictional «Star Wars» character, has given his name to a new species of flightless beetle, discovered in New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

The great auk — a flightless, North Atlantic seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century — is held up as a prime example of the damage done by overzealous museum collectors.

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 in 2001.

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.

Watch flightless dung beetles (Circellium bacchus), sneaky copulators and crap connoisseurs, do their thing in South Africa.

The Aldabra tortoises in Kauai are there to replace a long - extinct, flightless «tortoise - billed» duck.

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

It's about a wealthy Manhattan real estate shark named Popper (Jim Carrey) who is illegally hoarding exotic animals in his high - rise penthouse - a half dozen rare penguins, which he keeps to mollify his entitled children, who whine and pout when he speaks of having the flightless birds removed.

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

Despite that in the real world it would probably take one phone call to get rid of the flightless fowl, Popper decides to keep all of the birds.

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.

In The Angry Birds Movie, there's an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds — or almost entirely.

When I was in the Boy Scouts, I achieved the rank of auk, the now - extinct, flightless bird, through no fault of theirs.

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).

More than 10,000 species of birds exist in the world, with about 10 percent of those species found in the U.S.. Although most birds fly when they need to travel any distance, some are flightless, and the mountain quail of California actually makes its annual migration on foot.

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

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 peopleIn 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 peoplein the world, including the Moa: huge, flightless birds hunted to extinction by the early peoples.