Sentences with phrase «tail feathers in»

An international research team including Stony Brook scientist Alan Turner detail how Changyuraptor yangi helps explain the role of long tail feathers in flight evolution

So you can imagine my surprise when, nine months later, I pulled into the carport one chilly April evening and my headlights illuminated a mama flycatcher perched in the very same corner of the carport with her tail feathers in the air and frazzled look that plainly said: «Where's my nest, Bitch?»

Not exact matches

Numerous cultures in SE Asia are changing with the times and accepting molted tail feathers from endangered hornbills species maintained in zoos instead of harvesting / killing them in the wild so that they can meet their cultural / religious needs without killing off the species... why can't this Native American tribe do the same?

In many myths, Phoenix had red and purple feathers and a golden tail.

This feather - tailed possum has also been spied before by eagle - eyed biologists, but it has yet to be described in the scientific literature.

There's more subtlety than humans have realized in dropping out of the sky so fast your tail feathers sing.

Researchers from China, Canada, and the University of Bristol have discovered a dinosaur tail complete with its feathers trapped in a piece of amber.

Professor Mike Benton from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, added: «It's amazing to see all the details of a dinosaur tail — the bones, flesh, skin, and feathers — and to imagine how this little fellow got his tail caught in the resin, and then presumably died because he could not wrestle free.

The researchers say the specimen represents the feathered tail of a theropod preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber about 99 million years ago.

In the adult, those structures appeared along the end of its tail; in the juveniles, the feathers appeared along the neck and upper arm in one individual and near the pelvis and foot in the otheIn the adult, those structures appeared along the end of its tail; in the juveniles, the feathers appeared along the neck and upper arm in one individual and near the pelvis and foot in the othein the juveniles, the feathers appeared along the neck and upper arm in one individual and near the pelvis and foot in the othein one individual and near the pelvis and foot in the othein the other.

The need to pass genes to future generations is so critical that in some species, males put a lot of energy into generating these sex - specific features — a peacock's elaborate tail feathers or an elephant seal's massive, territory - defending body size, for example.

So in the new study, Clark and colleagues put tail feathers from 14 species of «bee» hummingbirds — a rowdy group that includes the Anna's hummingbird — into a wind tunnel.

The canonical example of sexual selection, the male peacock (in this image, an Indian blue peacock) is renowned for its iridescent blue - green plumage, elaborate feather train, and iconic «eyes,» the colorful markings on its tail feathers.

Wing lice dine on the same fluffy feathers but spend most of their time on the wings or tail, where they hide in between barbs on the birds» large flight feathers.

Venerated by the Aztecs and Mayans, whose rulers wore headdresses made out of its long tail feathers, the bird has a bright green body, a red breast, and green upper tail feathers that conceal its tail; in males, these feathers are longer than its body.

The rocket ship achieved a critical milestone in May, when its unique «feathering» system was deployed for the first time above the Mojave Desert in California, flawlessly bending the ship's tail nearly perpendicular to the fuselage in a maneuver that turned the craft into something like a badminton shuttlecock.

«The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!»

A bird that lived 125 million years ago had a tail with two distinctly feathered zones, according to new fossils found in China.

The find makes Jeholornis unique, as it combines an ancestral long tail with a fan of feathers at its base that resembles the tail feathers of modern birds, says Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing.

A team led by Jian Zi of Fudan University in Shanghai examined peacock tail feathers using both an optical microscope and a scanning electron microscope.

Although other pigments could have been present in Microraptor's feathers, they would have been largely masked by black pigments, rendering the creature crowlike in appearance (main image) except for that long, bony tail and lengthy feathers on its legs.

A flashy little hummingbird in the Bahamas could get upgraded to full species status, thanks to research that began with noise - making tail feathers.

In 2008, the feathers caught the interest of Christopher J. Clark of the University of California, Riverside, who has analyzed how male hummingbirds make their tails whine and whir as they flirtatiously dive - bomb females.

They found that there tended to be more mites on the hummingbirds» outer tail feathers than inner, and saw that mites often nestled between the barbs of individual feathers, sometimes in high numbers.

Its official name, Calliphlox evelynae lyrura, honored the (somewhat) lyrelike curve and length of the far left and right feathers in its tail.

«Majority of Anna's hummingbirds may have feather mites on their tail feathers: Tabletop scanning electron microscopy enabled analysis of P. huitzilopochtlii distribution in situ.»

The majority of Californian Anna's Hummingbirds appear to have P. huitzilopochtlii feather mites on their tail flight feathers, according to a study published February 14, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Youki Yamasaki from Washington State University, U.S., and colleagues.

A PIECE of feathered dinosaur tail was trapped in amber and preserved for almost 100 million years.

«It's amazing to see all the details of a dinosaur tail — the bones, flesh, skin and feathers — and to imagine how this little fellow got his tail caught in the resin, and then presumably died because he could not wrestle free,» says Mike Benton at the University of Bristol, UK.

«Darwin's female - choice theory has become the foundation for explaining the presence of exaggerated secondary sexual traits in many males, such as the peacock's tail feathers,» says evolutionary biologist Rama Singh, an author of a paper in the journal PLOS ONE that explains the findings.

«The long bony tail of Changyuraptor and the foot long feathers it sported are unlike the short tails in modern birds,» adds Dr. Turner.

Now a section of a dinosaur's tail, complete with feathers, has been found trapped in a piece of amber.

This crow - sized Archaeopteryx displayed a mosaic of both bird - like and reptilian features: Plumage with modern feathers, but also clawed fingers on its wings, teeth in its mouth, and a long bony tail.

► Two men with shotguns find wild turkeys and we see and hear the flash - bang of gun shots in a close - up of a rifle barrel; the two men both shoot, one man kills a turkey off - screen and we see him carrying the body of the turkey (a ball of feathers and tail feathers) away from the camera.

George Miller's strange - but - charming Happy Feet theorizes that if a papa penguin drops the egg, it won't kill the chick inside, as was so fervently, memorably anfd heartwrenchingly noted in March of the Penguins... it'll just rattle his innards, turning him into a mildly eccentric potential social outcast who can't sing like the rest of his breed, but can shake his tail feathers like Fred, Ginger AND Bojangles!

While that seems like a bit of a cheat, plenty of screen time is given to the children (Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe) in also dealing with a world gone wrong, and they act their little tail - feathers off.

There consist of a few featurettes: Birds Flipping History, Animating Free Birds: The Main Course, Winging It: Animators in Action, Talking Turkey with Composer Dominic Lewis, Shake a Tail Feather and a theatrical trailer.

Even with traction control assisting in Race mode, it pays to feather the throttle out of the Bank hairpin so as not to get the tail out and excite stability control into throttle - cutting action.

My participating in NaNo isn't going to damage your delicate little tail - feathers.

With sturdy bodies and dense «feathered» legs, impossibly long tails and thick manes flying in the wind, they look like they might just take off and fly like a fanciful unicorn.

Minor deviations, like equal - length feathering along the length of the tail or a slight «hook» in the end shouldn't be penalized too heavily.

Tula's dense coat and tail, feathered with pale creams but not actually white, reflects the fact that she has Golden Retriever in her family tree.

The Greater Sulphur Crested Cockatoo measures around 20 inches in length, while the Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoo comes in at about 15 inches from beak to tail feathers.

Feathered tails have long, lush fur on the lower surface of the tail and are seen in gun dogs.

In the case of a feathered Saluki, long hair is exhibited on the ears and the tail.

A TYPICAL YEAR OLD LION DOG c. 1923 C.R. Edmonds, Farmer's Weekly, February 7, 1923) Height — 24 inches at the shoulder Weight — 60 lb Colour — Tawny, fawn or brindle Coat — short and hard Tail — Longish and thick, free from feather and carried low (Note: two breeders have advised the writer that considerable difficulty is experienced in the tail as at times varying lengths of tail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as descriTail — Longish and thick, free from feather and carried low (Note: two breeders have advised the writer that considerable difficulty is experienced in the tail as at times varying lengths of tail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as descritail as at times varying lengths of tail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as descritail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as described.

The coat is flat, straight and of moderate length, with longer feathering on ears, backs of legs, belly, chest and tail, providing protection from briars without becoming entangled in them.

The dog in the illustration had his tail trimmed not that many weeks prior to the photo, so you need to look closely to see that I am trimming about 1» of feathering off.

On the majority of dogs, especially if having never had their tails trimmed before, you will have quite a ragged edge of sometimes quite lengthy feathering, often much longer at the tip, and also very long at the point in this photo that my thinning shear is just beginning to come to.

At work, the dog has a speedy, rushing action with the head carried out almost level with the back and the heavily - feathered tail in constant motion.»