单词 | elephant bird |
例句 | They included giant elephant birds, primitive primates called lemurs as big as gorillas, and pygmy hippos. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The elephant birds and the giant lemurs, along with most of the other large animals of Madagascar, suddenly vanished about 1,500 years ago—precisely when the first humans set foot on the island. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These included the elephant bird, a flightless creature ten feet tall and weighing almost half a ton—the largest bird in the world—and the giant lemurs, the globe’s largest primates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Extinct species depicted in the large, Audubon-like color etchings from Ford — the great elephant bird, the Cuban red macaw and the passenger pigeon in huge flocks. ‘The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art’ at American Art Museum The story of the elephant bird's extinction around a 1,000 years ago was hardly a revelation – humans ate its eggs. Rewind TV: Jamie's Dream School; Attenborough and the Giant Egg; The Promise 2011-03-06T00:09:51Z But no: this was a beach in Madagascar where 1,000 years ago the three-metre tall elephant bird strutted its funky stuff. TV review: Madagascar; Romancing the Stone; A History of Ancient Britain 2011-02-10T08:00:01Z The elephant bird was the heaviest bird to ever walk the earth. This Gargantuan Bird Weighed as Much as a Sports Car 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Modern birds have wings which are more or less developed depending on the species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Two thousand years ago, lemurs the size of humans and giant “elephant birds” roamed Madagascar. Human population boom may have doomed Madagascar’s giant animals 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Madagascar was once home to towering elephant birds, giant tortoises, and even giant lemurs. Double whammy doomed Madagascar’s giant birds and mammals 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Nikita Zelenkov, a palaeontologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that when he first received the thigh bone for study he thought it must be from a long-extinct elephant bird from Madagascar. Half-tonne birds may have roamed Europe at same time as humans 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Last year a complete egg of an aepyornis maximus, otherwise known as an elephant bird, sold for $130,000 – roughly five times what it would have gone for a decade earlier. Dinosaur fossil collectors ‘price museums out of the market’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Not much is known about Madagascar’s elephant birds, whose skeletons—poorly preserved in the island’s swamps—are mostly in pieces. World’s biggest bird might have been as blind as a bat 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z He traveled the globe with a measuring tape examining thousands of elephant bird bones. The Elephant Bird Regains Its Title as the Largest Bird That Ever Lived 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z It was a ratite, a flightless bird of the same family as emus and ostriches, belonging to a group appropriately called elephant birds. New Titleholder For the Largest Bird of All Time 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z According to scientists, it's evidence that the elephant birds of Madagascar were hunted and butchered for food. Who killed the largest birds that ever lived? 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z On 2-meter-long leg bones from the elephant bird, he noticed deep grooves, evidently made by humans butchering their prey with sharp stone tools. New find clears Madagascar's first settlers of wiping out world's largest bird 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z They also assumed that, like the moa, elephant birds were active during the day. World’s biggest bird might have been as blind as a bat 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z But Dr. Hansford reports that A. titan is not only its own species but a separate genus of much larger elephant bird, as evidenced by the distinct size and shape of all three limb bones. The Elephant Bird Regains Its Title as the Largest Bird That Ever Lived 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The new framework proposed by Hansford and Turvey recognizes three genera and four species of elephant birds, clustering into three different size categories. New Titleholder For the Largest Bird of All Time 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z The flightless elephant bird was native to Madagascar. Museum realizes collection’s rare elephant bird egg is real 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Walton Ford’s exquisitely detailed paintings and drawings include one of a massive flock of passenger pigeons and another that imagines the elephant bird, an approximately 10-foot emu-like creature that once lived on Madagascar. Art review: ‘The Singing and the Silence’ at Smithsonian American Art Museum 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z To learn more about how elephant birds lived, researchers obtained skulls from two elephant bird species and measured their interiors using a computerized tomography scanner. World’s biggest bird might have been as blind as a bat 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “They thought the second biggest elephant bird, Aepyornis maximus, was the biggest, and they estimated them to be about 400 to 500 kilos, which is correct,” said Dr. Hansford. The Elephant Bird Regains Its Title as the Largest Bird That Ever Lived 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z This suggests that the African ostrich and the Madagascan elephant birds are the oldest branches of the ratite family tree. Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z "Or perhaps the common ancestor of both elephant birds and kiwis flew to their final locations from somewhere else entirely." Little kiwi, huge extinct elephant bird were birds of a feather 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z DNA extracted from the bones of two elephant birds at the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, revealed a genetic connection between the elephant bird and the kiwi despite their physical and geographical dissimilarities. The Kiwi, New Zealand's National Bird, Isn't From Australia After All 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z That suggests that, like the kiwi and the kakapo, elephant birds were active only at night, the scientists say. World’s biggest bird might have been as blind as a bat 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z He said it's strange the kiwi and elephant bird are such close relatives. Kiwi DNA link spurs rethink of flightless birds 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In fact, elephant birds are only distantly related to ostriches, the researchers said. Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z You’d need 160 chicken eggs to equal the volume of a single elephant bird egg. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Rather, its closest relative is the Madagascan elephant bird. The Kiwi, New Zealand's National Bird, Isn't From Australia After All 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z An international team isolated the delicate DNA molecules of species including the massive "elephant birds" of the genus Aepyorni . Good egg - DNA of extinct birds found in ancient shells 2010-03-10T00:22:00Z The research isn’t just prompting scientists to rethink the evolution of elephant birds. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z "It's remarkable that elephant birds, rheas, moa, ostriches and emus all evolved their very similar body types and size independently from a small, flighted ancestor." Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The only feature of the elephant bird that wasn’t gigantic was its wings, which were useless, shriveled arms. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z This discovery made scientists all the more curious about what secrets were hidden in elephant bird DNA. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The elephant bird may be at the root of legends about giant birds. Good egg - DNA of extinct birds found in ancient shells 2010-03-10T00:22:00Z Dr. Cooper had tried in the early 1990s to extract elephant bird DNA from fossils, but he had come up empty. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z "It was a real surprise that elephant birds are most closely related to kiwis — it's completely unprecedented," Mitchell told Live Science. Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Today, scientists are trying to determine when the elephant bird became extinct by estimating the age of its youngest remains. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Just a few centuries ago, Madagascar was home to a monstrous creature called the elephant bird. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z There are complete skeletons of the elephant bird, but by analysing its DNA researchers hope to build up a more detailed picture of the creature and discover why it went extinct. Good egg - DNA of extinct birds found in ancient shells 2010-03-10T00:22:00Z Instead of flying, the elephant bird kept its head down much of the time, grazing on plants. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The unexpected relationship between the elephant bird and the kiwi "highlights the power of evolution to produce radically different forms over a relatively short period of time," Mitchell said. Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Now that the elephant bird is gone, scientists have to content themselves with indirect clues to its existence. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Finally, a team of Australian researchers has now recovered sizable chunks of DNA from two different species of elephant birds. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, scientists began testing Dr. Cracraft’s hypothesis through DNA comparisons of . of living species.They also started searching for material from extinct moas and elephant birds. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z So Dr. Cooper recently decided to have another go at the elephant bird bones. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z When the scientists compared the elephant bird DNA to that of other birds, they were surprised to find that kiwis were the most closely related species. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, some scientists began to look for bits of DNA in those elephant bird remains, but for two decades they came up dry. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z They could also estimate how long ago the two lineages shared a common ancestor by counting up the mutations that have accumulated in the kiwi and elephant bird DNA. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z |
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