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