Sentences with phrase «modern flightless»

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.

And with its feathers and bones looking so much like modern flightless island birds, it just makes me wonder,» says Habib.

Not exact matches

Many vestigial structures also exist, showing links back to evolutionary history, like hind limbs on snake fossils, pelvises on modern whales, wings on flightless birds, and tails and extra ribs on humans.

Flightless Beibeilong sinensis, which lived around 90 million years ago, had feathers, primitive wings and a beak, but dwarfed any of its modern bird relatives.

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).

Flightless and weighing about 40 kilograms, it stood approximately 1.4 meters tall, or about the size of a modern day emu.

This modern - day Eden is home to a plethora of plants and animals, including the Kakapo — the world's only flightless parrot.