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The vestigial wings are so small that they are invisible under the bristly, hair-like, two-branched feathers. While most adult birds have bones with hollow insides to minimise weight and make flight practicable, kiwi have marrow , like mammals and the young of other birds.
Manticore – Creature with a man's head, a lion's body, bat wings, and a scorpion tail. Mermaid, merman – Women and men with the lower bodies of fish. Minotaur – A human with the head and sometimes legs of a bull. Moirai – Lesser trio of female deities assigned with deciding and weaving the fates of humans.
Garuda – A creature that has the head, wings, and legs of an eagle and body of a man. Gorgon – Each of them has snakes in place of their hair; sometimes also depicted with a snake-like lower body. Jorōgumo - Type of Japanese yōkai, depicted as a spider woman manipulating small fire-breathing spiders. Mothman – A humanoid moth.
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Wing of the white-tailed eagle. Bird wings are a paired forelimb in birds. The wings give the birds the ability to fly, creating lift . Terrestrial flightless birds have reduced wings or none at all (for example, moa ). In aquatic flightless birds ( penguins ), wings can serve as flippers. [ 1]
Fairyflies are very tiny insects, like most chalcidoid wasps, mostly ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 mm (0.020 to 0.039 in) long. They include the world's smallest known insect, with a body length of only 0.139 mm (0.0055 in), and the smallest known flying insect, only 0.15 mm (0.0059 in) long. They usually have nonmetallic black, brown, or yellow bodies.
The cedar waxwing ( Bombycilla cedrorum) is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds. It is a medium-sized bird that is mainly brown, gray, and yellow. Some of the wing feathers have red tips, the resemblance of which to sealing wax gives these birds their common name. It is a native of North and Central America ...
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