The Eosinopteryx was a 30cm (11.8in) flightless dinosaur whose remains were found in north-eastern China.
KFC's a meaningless acronym that renounces flightless birds, the Bluegrass State, and trans fat.
It makes it indisputable that a body covering similar to feathers was present in non-avian (flightless) dinosaurs.
During this time mammals, along with some large flightless birds, did take over.
Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th Century.
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There will be high flyers and flightless birds in the globalized economy.
So thought Benjamin Franklin, despite the former creature being fat and flightless.
Look for the funky scrap metal sculptures by Todd Harris, including kiwis (flightless New Zealand birds) and tuatara (native New Zealand reptiles).
Here you can watch flightless steamer ducks, Andean condors and guanaco (rare llama-like herbivores), and explore the glacier-lined Beagle Channel, made famous by Darwin and Fitzroy.
Sometimes, it even surfaces in the NFL, like in Sunday's New York Giants 24-2 win over Atlanta, in which the flightless Falcons were limited to a lone, second-quarter safety.
My wife, Jeanne, and I are tracking these 6-foot flightless birds, trying to recall the advice given us by an Aboriginal guide: Stay upwind and occasionally emit an emu call.
Fattened, flightless, farm-raised, store-bought turkeys bear little resemblance to their tough, feral cousins that tromp through the forests, prairies, and scrublands of every state in the US except for Alaska.
Vestiges such as the stumpy wings of flightless birds, and the hairs that prickle on human skin just like the rising hackles on furry mammals, are further testimony to our shared origins.
He was also starting to figure out, along with a number of other emu ranchers in the mid-1990s, that meat of the flightless animal, despite being low in fat and cholesterol, doesn't fly with diners.
These days, both tourists and researchers flock to the islands to see giant tortoises that can live 150 years, marine iguanas that dive to find dinner, flightless cormorants, and penguins that somehow thrive near the equator.
While at the camp, guests can participate in a variety of activities, including exploring ice caves, visiting a nearby science base, kite-skiing or touring a colony of Emperor penguins, where more than 6, 000 of the flightless birds nest and raise their chicks.
One was completely flightless.
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