flightlessness

The pope is Catholic notwithstanding pigs 'flightlessness.

Obama: Iran 'Wants to Open Up' 2009

Though experts at manoeuvrable gliding, they might undergo periods of occasional flightlessness when, in Spring, they gorge on buds and new leaves.

Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

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.

Extinct Dodo Related to Pigeons 2007

Though experts at manoeuvrable gliding, they might undergo periods of occasional flightlessness when, in Spring, they gorge on buds and new leaves.

That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007

Dave and I had a discussion today about flightlessness in ratites: a single evolution of flightlessness at the base of the clade, or multiple separate origins of it within the group?

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Dave and I had a discussion today about flightlessness in ratites: a single evolution of flightlessness at the base of the clade, or multiple separate origins of it within the group?

More on what I saw at the zoo Darren Naish 2006

Herbivory, filter-feeding, carrion-feeding and flightlessness have all been evolved by ducks.

The Madagascar pochard returns Darren Naish 2006

Herbivory, filter-feeding, carrion-feeding and flightlessness have all been evolved by ducks.

Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

It is almost as if the species is poised in the transition to full flightlessness, and indeed both morphological and genetic studies (Corbin et al. 1988) agree that T. patachonicus is the most basal member of its otherwise flightless genus.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Now if I had just looked at PW's review "Don't penguins' actual talents, like deep-sea swimming, compensate for flightlessness?"

Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006