Sentences with phrase «seen flightless»

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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.

Cooper first compared moa and kiwi DNA to see if the two flightless birds were closely related.

EARLY BIRD The flightless dinosaur - like bird Archaeopteryx could glide, as seen in this artist's illustration.

On the other hand, Habib says, its wings could still have helped it jump down from ledges or run up steep inclines, so - called «wing assisted» behaviors seen in flightless birds today.

On the way to his first session, we see that the island is full of happy and flightless birds who greatly contrast Red, who lives outside of the village and has been an angry loner since childhood.

Divers can move into the shallows at Cabo Douglas to see diving Galapagos penguins, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants and sea lions.

See the biggest marine iguanas mingling with sally - lightfoot crabs, as well as flightless cormorants nesting sites, Galapagos penguins and the «King» of predators on the islands, the Galapagos hawk.

After the hike, along the shorelines you may find flightless cormorants and see penguins while snorkeling in this beautiful cove.

As part of the presentation, Square Enix finally let us see the game's versions of Chocobos, Final Fantasy's flightless avian mounts.

It was bad enough that this irreplaceable species, Raphus cucullatus, was quickly driven to extinction in the 17th century thanks to man's folly — the flightless birds that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean were last seen in 1662 — but the poor things have also suffered the fate of a maligned legacy.