Sentences with phrase «large flightless»

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

Mononychus measured up to a metre from its beak to the tip of its tail, but it resembled none of today's large flightless birds — ostriches, rheas, emus, cassowaries and kiwis.

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.

After the mass extinctions of the Cretaceous, many terrestrial ecosystems were dominated by large flightless birds.

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.

Known as one of Tropical North Queensland «s most scenic beaches, Etty Bay is truly where the rainforest meets the sea and it's where you can spot Australia's largest flightless bird, the Southern Cassowary.

Not exact matches

Burga and colleagues compared DNA of flightless Galápagos cormorants with that of their close relatives, including double - crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus), which have large wings and can fly.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) or «land lobster» is a large, flightless stick insect that was, until recently, thought to be extinct.

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).

Admire a variety of seabirds, such as blue - footed booby, brown noddy, terns, flightless cormorant and depending on the season, a large number of Galapagos penguins.