Sentences with phrase «of giant bird»

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After heavy rain during the night, we rolled south from Edinburgh in sporadic showers through the land of the giant bird shredders... I stopped to look at them.

They also hunted the native megafauna to extinction centuries ago, including the tratratratra, a gorilla - size lemur that weighed up to 400 pounds, and the elephant bird, which weighed nearly half a ton and may have been the inspiration for a 13th - century tale of a giant bird that carried Sinbad the Sailor to safety.

A clutch of enormous fossil eggs from China has led to the discovery of a new species of giant bird - like dinosaur.

This forgettable sequel to the forgettable «Journey to the Center of the Earth» stars Johnson as a stepdad who takes his kids on an incredible adventure to a CGI - island full of giant birds that poop on Luis Guzmán while he's riding a giant bee.

Not exact matches

GEARS released Flappy Bird, Vietnam emerged from relative obscurity to become the Southeast Asian production hub of South Korean giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd..

The audience was thrilled to see their hometown hero, and greeted tracks from Bird's best album, The Mysterious Production of Eggs, with giant cheers.

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

Supermarket giant Coles brand free range eggs allow for 10,000 birds per hectare with each bird allowed «at least a square metre of space» outside and «minimum perching space» inside the sheds.

Arsenal and bitter rivals, Chelsea square up in China on Saturday as part of preparations for the new season, as the London giants clash at lunchtime UK time, at the impressive Bird's Nest stadium, in Beijing to renew a very familiar acquaintance.

April 22: Come along with Sylvie and her pet bird to search for missing ingredients, wrestle with giant candy machines, and get lost in a magical pop - up cookbook at this performance of Lollipops for Breakfast (Brookline)

With help from the Chinese sequencing giant BGI, B10K has already sequenced to some degree the genomes of more than 300 birds, with representatives for each family and subfamily.

Now a doctoral student in biodiversity management at the U.K.'s University of Kent, he is cataloging Iwokrama's iconic and bizarre species, including jaguars, giant anteaters, anacondas, and scads of birds and bats.

Within the 31 squares, researchers analysed the presence of 35 key species of mammals and birds for which these regions are natural habitats, such as pumas, giant anteaters and red howler monkeys.

After the swift bipedal dinosaurs went extinct, the world never saw their like again — until a giant killer bird, sporting arms instead of wings, raced onto the stage.

The giant bill of the chestnut - mandibled toucan makes up a third of the bird's body length, but thanks to a honeycomb structure, it's not as heavy as it looks.

Kelly Benoit - Bird uses sonar to watch the underwater movements of all kinds of creatures, from microscopic zooplankton to giant gray whales.

Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred 66 million years ago when a giant asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving modern birds as their only descendants.

Dozens of species disappeared altogether, including 17 giant lemurs, three pygmy hippopotamuses, two aardvarklike mammals, a giant fossa (a catlike carnivore), eight elephant birds, a giant crocodile and two giant tortoises.

When the dinosaurs became extinct, plenty of small bird - like dinosaurs disappeared along with giants like Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.

So far, Archer has found remains of carnivorous kangaroos, marsupial lions, giant snakes, tree - climbing crocodiles, miniature tyrannosaurs, prehistoric lungfish, and the largest - ever bird, a 10 - foot - tall 1,000 - pounder that he likes to call the «demon duck of doom.»

Back in England, Darwin pored over his notes and studied the birds, beetles, and fossils — including an extinct giant ground sloth of the genus Megatherium — that he had gathered on his voyage.

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.

Seriema at the deepest branch of Australaves could be considered to belong to a raptorial taxon because they kill vertebrate prey (94) and are the sole living relatives of the extinct giant «terror birds,» apex predators during the Paleogene (95, 96).

For instance, the larva of the giant swallowtail butterfly (Papilio cresphontes)(left) masquerades as a bird dropping, as does the orb web spider (Cyclosa ginnaga).

But the discovery of a 36 - million - year - old giant penguin skeleton in Peru, with many of its feathers preserved, is providing new clues to this bird's evolutionary flight path from air to sea.

Juno will orbit perpendicular to the planet's equator instead of following the more traveled path around it, and will get a bird's - eye view of the giant auroras seething at the poles.

The giant star, named π1Gruis, is one of the stars in the constellation Grus (Latin for the crane, a type of bird), which can be observed in the southern hemisphere.

At least twenty - five plants and animals observed during the survey are new records for Penang or peninsular Malaysia, including the Sunda colugo or flying lemur, the red giant flying squirrel, the long - tailed giant rat, the Indomalayan niviventer, the lesser mouse deer, and species of ground squirrels, birds, bacteria, bats, ants, orchids, flies, frogs, mosquitoes, and microscopic water bears.

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.

We found that the giant panda's geographical range overlaps with 70 percent of forest bird species, 70 percent of forest mammals, and 31 percent of forest amphibian species found only in mainland China.»

He swatted birds with his hat, pulled the tails of iguanas and sat on giant tortoises.

Today the dodo bird is an icon of extinction and the mammoth a giant of de-extinction prospects, but during the 19th century there were people that believed the dodo bird was a myth and that mammoths would be discovered still alive in the unexplored reaches of America.

The Dromornis murrayi, a 551 - pound flightless bird, now emerges as the earliest ancestor of the Dromornis giant birds.

Scientists believe that these giant birds vanished during the Pliocene period, only three million years ago, but the cause of their extinction is unclear.

my days of brining a giant bird are over for now.

String accompaniment, giant bird cages, balloons, classic cars... all in white of course.

And Brad Bird's «The Iron Giant» effectively uses a mix of computer animation and traditional, 2 - D animation.

Bird started with two episodes of The Simpsons and went on to big acclaim for The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille.

Writer - director Brad Bird has made great original cartoons (The Iron Giant; The Incredibles; Ratatouille) and a great live - action thrill ride (Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol), so the prospect of him making a great original live - action thrill ride seemed like an easy layup.

And seemingly the freshest gag, according to the audience reaction, is the giant monkey flipping the bird (1976's A * P * E * did it first, with the giant gorilla giving the Finger of Honor to a helicopter).

«The Iron Giant» (1999) 97 percent: Engaging, endearing, affecting and charmingly retro, this animated adventure — featuring the voice of Vin Diesel as the titular robot — tackles touchy subjects and complex relationships with a steady hand and beautiful direction from Brad Bird.

It's also another major winner for writer - director Brad Bird, who already has a couple of popular, acclaimed titles under his belt, The Incredibles and The Iron Giant.

I don't know much about Brad Bird outside of his wonderful animated flick The Iron Giant, but I don't think he'd come up with something better than what JJ Abrams is likely to offer with SW.

Brad Bird, Oscar - winning director of the animated gems «Ratatouille,» «The Incredibles» and «The Iron Giant,» will helm the fourth «Mission: Impossible» film for Paramount Pictures.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

Rupert Grint revealed he keeps a collection of weird antiques.The «Harry Potter» star's collection boasts of giant elephant - bird eggs and even the X...

Ghost Bird (Unrated) Endangered species documentary chronicling how ornithologists flocked to a tiny town in Arkansas in the wake of a supposed sighting there of a giant, ivory - billed woodpecker thought to extinct.

That the movie succeeds at all is a testament to the gifts of director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol), who keeps things rolling along amiably, from a script he co-wrote with Damon Lindelof.

Summer 2016 is going to bring an epic Marvel movie, new Ghostbusters, a very friendly giant, some angry birds and some of DC's biggest villains.

Bird, who worked on lauded but viewer - deficient projects like The Critic and The Iron Giant, has since made good both creatively and commercially with the aptly - titled The Incredibles, and here celebrates all that is essential to artistic expression: freedom, enthusiasm and — of course — encouragement.