flightless
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definition
adjective
The flightless birds and insects of such islands had clearly lost a highly complex function.
(of a bird or an insect) naturally unable to fly.
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They acted more like huge 'flightless' birds of prey, than the overgrown bipedal lizards of popular imagination.
Most of the birds classified in the Palaeognathae are also flightless, but not all 'flightless' birds are classified in the Palaeognathae.
Cassowaries belong to a primitive group of mainly 'flightless' birds called Palaeognathae.
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.
The kakapo, a 'flightless' bird, was particularly vulnerable to predators.
Moas were ratites, 'flightless' birds considered the sister group of all other birds.
The living ratites (ostriches, emus, kiwis, and the extinct moa) are an ancient lineage of 'flightless' birds.
A giant 'flightless' bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution.
Darwin didn't need to put his theories through contortions to account for 'flightless' birds and cave fish.
For example, the cassowary (a large 'flightless' bird) feeds on bright blue and red fruit.
The large, 'flightless' moa bird that roamed New Zealand in ancient times grew much more slowly than modern birds, according to a new study of their bones.
The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, 'flightless' bird, the dodo.
Rheas are large 'flightless' birds native to South America.
Whether the 'flightless' birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
Until the late Pleistocene era 11,000 to 50,000 years ago, big, exotic mammals and 'flightless' birds roamed the planet.
Penguins are 'flightless' birds that are highly specialized for swimming and diving, and spend much of their life at sea.
Why do those 'flightless' birds, unique to South America, seem to replace each other in adjoining regions?
Several people here have argued that Caudipteryx is in fact a 'flightless' bird.
Thus spores and minute, winged insects stay suspended longer than seeds and large, 'flightless' insects.
Numerous recessive lethal and sublethal mutations have been reported, as well as a few mutations causing 'flightlessness' .
I take delight in the power of natural selection, and it would have given me satisfaction to report that the ratites evolved their 'flightlessness' separately in different parts of the world, in the same way that the dodo did.
Although this chapter does not include a discussion of when and where certain key seabird traits evolved (e.g. 'flightlessness' or wing-propelled diving), it provides the reader with a strong foundation in seabird paleontology.
The adaptations the dodo made for island living - 'flightlessness' and gigantism - have made understanding its evolutionary history and classifying it based on body characteristics difficult.
Small body size, 'flightlessness' , mechanical sound production, and demanding flight were associated with changes in taxic state.
It requires a large number of reversals to 'flightlessness' .
The diversity of glandless taxa has puzzled researchers, who have been unable to correlate the presence or absence of a gland with factors such as distribution, climate, ecology, or 'flightlessness' .
Although the advantage of wings in males is clear for reasons of habitat escape and mate location, the advantage of 'flightlessness' in males remains poorly investigated.
If 'flightlessness' has evolved in so many independent lineages of modern birds, why should a similar event surprise us merely because it occurred soon after the origin of birds?
Additionally, unique or unusual wing uses (nonflight functions such as visual or acoustic display, swimming, 'flightlessness' , etc.) were also searched for in the natural histories of taxa in which state changes had occurred.
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