Sentences with phrase «of flightless»

But if this is all a bit steep price-wise, how about showing your love of the flightless Antarctican in mug form?

A floor up is a selection of drawings, videos, and installations which continue the theme of flightless birds as a metaphor for rural - to - urban migration.

Penguins are a species of flightless bird found in the Mario franchise.

The Angry Birds Movie (PG for action and rude humor) Animated adventure, inspired by the video game series of the same name, set on an island inhabited by a flock of flightless birds with anger management issues whose patience is suddenly tested by an overwhelming pig invasion.

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.

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

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

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.

«It's the oldest [penguin] following pretty closely after the loss of flight and the evolution of flightless wing - propelled diving that we know of,» Proffitt said.

New Zealand was home to nine species of flightless moa until humans arrived around AD 1300.

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

Many of the flightless birds do not leave eastern Antarctica, and they encounter few migratory birds.

One is a mouse - size marsupial that eats nothing but nectar, pollen, and small insects — the ecological equivalent of a flightless hummingbird.

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.

The tiny, stunted wings of the flightless cormorant of the Galapagos are useless.

Not exact matches

To start, for those of you who may not know what a kiwi is, it's a small nocturnal and flightless bird that's native to New Zealand.

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.

It is a land of odd creatures: giant anteaters, tapirs, maned wolves, the llama - like guanaco, flightless rheas as tall as I am, and as many as 10 species of armadillo.

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).

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.

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.

So, I got to see the bones of this extinct, probably flightless caracara from Jamaica.

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

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.

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.

Here you can find the bones of moa - nalo, the giant flightless ducks that once ruled Hawaii.

The flightless fowl roamed 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period and grew to the size of a well - fed pigeon.

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.

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.

Other species, including the remaining varieties of huia, the kiwi, the flightless rail, the takahe and the kakapo are all on the verge of disappearance.

Many flightless living birds display these feathers, but they are only one small part of a multipart flight apparatus.

A familiar story, this flightless bird's habitat was limited to a single island — King Island off the coast of Australia.

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.

For murres, «we were able to show that flight costs were much greater than expected... [and] demonstrate the cost of not being flightless.»

The team also found that the flightless cormorants have an abnormally high number of genetic mutations affecting cilia — small, hair - like structures that protrude from cells and regulate everything from normal development to reproduction.

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.

The Mauritius Dodo more commonly just dodo, was a metre - high (three - foot) flightless bird of the island of Mauritius.

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.

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

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.

The Raphinae are a subfamily of extinct flightless birds colloquially called didines or didine birds.

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.

The dodo represents one of the best - known examples of extinction caused by humans, yet we know surprisingly little about this flightless pigeon from a scientific perspective.

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.