How To Use Flightless bird In A Sentence

  • They acted more like huge flightless birds of prey, than the overgrown bipedal lizards of popular imagination.
  • Several people here have argued that Caudipteryx is in fact a flightless bird.
  • Whether the flightless birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
  • Caudipteryx has short forelimbs and a feathered manus and is likely to have been a secondarily flightless bird.
  • The flightless birds and insects of such islands had clearly lost a highly complex function.
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  • Moas were ratites, flightless birds considered the sister group of all other birds.
  • Penguins are flightless birds that are highly specialized for swimming and diving, and spend much of their life at sea.
  • As the coastal waters were heavily fished, the seals remained on the southern-most island and the giant moa(a huge flightless bird)was eventually hunted to extinction.
  • A giant flightless bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution.
  • There are only two kinds of animal that spend their whole lives performing the tricky balancing act of walking on two legs - humans and some flightless birds, like ostriches.
  • Here's one with the flightless birds over there, the rheas.
  • The living ratites (ostriches, emus, kiwis, and the extinct moa) are an ancient lineage of flightless birds.
  • When some brave souls pointed out that the peccadillo was a notoriously flightless bird they were hung, drawn and hacked up into bite-sized portions as a precaution. Archive 2009-06-01
  • They have plowed billions into the project and are keen to ensure it doesn't turn into a costly flightless bird.
  • This huge flightless bird has regularly appeared in illustrated fossil books as a giant carnivore.
  • I asked for your votes to christen the small, flightless bird formerly known as Moderately Evil Penguin, and you stuffed the ballot box in your droves.
  • Rheas are large flightless birds native to South America.
  • The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo.
  • For example, the cassowary (a large flightless bird) feeds on bright blue and red fruit.
  • Until the late Pleistocene era 11,000 to 50,000 years ago, big, exotic mammals and flightless birds roamed the planet.
  • The flightless birds and insects of such islands had clearly lost a highly complex function.
  • A relative of the ostrich, the cassowary is a large flightless bird that eats fruit and is famous for getting hit by traffic and for producing large, dense scats. Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs
  • Owen also identified New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa or dinornis, from a piece of shin just 15 cm long.
  • It became home to a unique zoo of hoofed mammals, edentates, marsupials, and more giant flightless birds (Phorusrachids).
  • Some 200 pebbles, collectively weighing 2.5 kg were recovered from the gut region of a moa skeleton (extinct large flightless bird) in New Zealand.
  • The basic facts in the case couldn't be more straightforward: when people first came to New Zealand's northern and southern islands, there were large flightless birds known as moa already living there; today there are many more people and no more moa. No Moa: Modeling an Extinction
  • In fact, feathers on flightless birds, which merely need to be heat insulators rather than being amazingly designed aerodynamically, resemble hairs in shape as well.
  • Why do those flightless birds, unique to South America, seem to replace each other in adjoining regions?
  • Most of the birds classified in the Palaeognathae are also flightless, but not all flightless birds are classified in the Palaeognathae.
  • The penguin is a flightless bird.
  • The emu is a large flightless bird similar to the ostrich; it breeds in the Australian interior but ranges widely in search of food and water. Creative Loafing Atlanta
  • They acted more like huge flightless birds of prey, than the overgrown bipedal lizards of popular imagination.
  • For example, the cassowary (a large flightless bird) feeds on bright blue and red fruit.
  • A giant flightless bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution.
  • I pictured the huge flightless bird with a lofty, slender neck and beady eyes.
  • Instantly, a funny-looking flightless bird ran up to the mammoth. ICE AGE
  • In a completely unrelated issue, what is the best way to treat a large flightless bird?
  • Darwin didn't need to put his theories through contortions to account for flightless birds and cave fish.
  • The kakapo, a flightless bird, was particularly vulnerable to predators.
  • Large flightless birds, emus are native to Australia and are next only to the cassowary and the ostrich in size.
  • Caudipteryx has short forelimbs and a feathered manus and is likely to have been a secondarily flightless bird.
  • The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo.
  • The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo.
  • Meanwhile, much ado is building up over Etopen, Nodoka's cute, fat penguin mascot who was snatched from her while she napped and is now doing the rounds passing from hand to hand in some kind of flightless bird equivalent of pass the parcel. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • Cassowaries belong to a primitive group of mainly flightless birds called Palaeognathae.
  • Some flightless birds, such as living penguins, puffins, and rails, and the extinct auks and phororhacoids, are classified in the Neognathae along with most flying birds.
  • Whether the flightless birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
  • By all three criteria, the skeleton of Caudipteryx falls into the domain of flightless birds rather than the space of cursorial dinosaurs.
  • Whether the flightless birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
  • We also owe a small selection of words for native wildlife to the language: the cassowary, a large flightless bird related to the emu, was called kasuari in Malay.
  • In other words, a kiwi is a dwarfed version of a giant flightless bird. The Song of The Dodo
  • A giant flightless bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution.
  • Moas were ratites, flightless birds considered the sister group of all other birds.
  • For example, the cassowary (a large flightless bird) feeds on bright blue and red fruit.
  • The kakapo, a flightless bird, was particularly vulnerable to predators.

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