Sentences with phrase «in flightless birds»

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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'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 entiBirds Movie, there's an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds — or almost entibirds — 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.

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.

In evolutionary terms, the flightless birds, or ratites, were some of the earliest types of birds to develop.

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.

Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can arrange additional activities such as playing golf, biking through the vineyards, visiting a colony of gannet seabirds, a tour of the Cape Kidnappers sheep and cattle ranch, fly fishing on local streams and visiting a kiwi habitat in search of New Zealand's famous flightless birds.

This large flightless bird can be found in the rainforest surrounding the area and is fascinating to watch.

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.

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.