How to use in-sentence of “flightless”:
+ Since the fossil record is never complete, it is not possible to give a count of the number of flightless bird species who were living before mankind left Africa.
+ The greater or American rhea is a large, flightless bird from forests of South America.
+ The giant flightless bird “Titanis walleri” from the Pleistocene coastal plain of South Texas.
+ The main predators of flightless birds were larger birds.
+ The rheas are flightless birds of the genus “Rhea”, native to South America.
+ They are part of a group of flightless birds called the ratites.
+ Ostrom told other scientists that “Dienocus” had a small body, sleek, horizontal posture, the same kind of spine that flightless birds have, and the large claws on its feet.
+ Though the flightless kakapo of New Zealand can outweigh it at up to 3.5kg.
Example sentences of “flightless”:
+ Martin believes that maniraptorans are secondarily flightless birds, and that birds evolved from non–dinosaurian archosaurs, so that most of the species formerly called theropods would now not even be classified as dinosaurs.Martin L.S.
+ They are ratites, a useful grouping of medium to large flightless birds.
+ The emu is a large flightless bird.
+ Terror birds, the family family Phorusrhacidae, were large carnivorous flightless birds.
+ New Zealand has more species of flightless birds than any other country.
+ The giant flightless bird “Gastornis” appeared in the Upper Palaeocene, and the Creodonts had also evolved.
+ About 60 different vertebrates became extinct, including the Diprotodon family, several large flightless birds, meat eating kangaroos, a five-metre lizard and Meiolania, a tortoise the size of a small car.
+ The useless wings of flightless beetles are sealed under fused wing covers.
+ The smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island Rail.
+ There were also other families of flightless birds, such as the now extinct Phorusrhacidae, that evolved to be very powerful terrestrial predators.
+ By 1400 AD, most of the forest habitat it used had been cleared by fire, and most of the large flightless moas that it ate had been hunted to extinction.
+ The assemblage of fossils includes a South American anteater, two types of South American flightless birds, and an ancestor of the scaly ant-eater of the old-world tropics.
+ The elytra are fused in some large flightless species.
+ The island is presently home to four endemic land bird species – the Henderson fruit dove, Henderson lorikeet, Henderson reed warbler and the flightless Henderson crake.
+ Martin believes that maniraptorans are secondarily flightless birds, and that birds evolved from non–dinosaurian archosaurs, so that most of the species formerly called theropods would now not even be classified as dinosaurs.Martin L.S.
+ They are ratites, a useful grouping of medium to large flightless birds.