Sentences with phrase «into flightless»

Not exact matches

Consistent with most previous molecular and contemporary morphological studies (15), they divided modern birds (Neornithes) into Palaeognathae (tinamous and flightless ratites), Galloanseres [Galliformes (landfowl) and Anseriformes (waterfowl)-RSB-, and Neoaves (all other extant birds).

Then, much later, some birds returned to the ground and evolved into our favorite flightless lizards like the tyrannosaur and velociraptor.

If scientists could find a lot more dodo DNA, they might be able to identify the genetic variations that turned the ancestors of dodos — small, flying pigeons — into big flightless birds.

Attempting to return the flightless bird, he inadvertently adds five more to his brood, with his New York apartment quickly thrown into chaos.

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).

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 peoples.

Divers can move into the shallows at Cabo Douglas to see diving Galapagos penguins, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants and sea lions.