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- γνάθος (gnáthos) 'jaw') is an infraclass of birds, called paleognaths or palaeognaths, within the class Aves of the clade Archosauria. It is one of the two...
- their eggs being the largest known for any amniote. Elephant birds are palaeognaths (whose flightless representatives are often known as ratites), and their...
- of the new findings and conclusions. Kiwi and tinamous are the only palaeognath lineages not to evolve gigantism, perhaps because of competitive exclusion...
- shared this trait despite their great size. Unlike virtually every other palaeognath, which are generally small-brained by bird standards, kiwi have proportionally...
- which find the relationships between the four main clades of non-ostrich palaeognaths (moa+tinamou, kiwi+elephant bird, rheas, and emus+c****owaries) to be...
- sufficient time for sperm to be transferred from the male to the female. For palaeognaths and waterfowl, the males do not use the cloaca for reproduction, but...
- v t e Palaeognath genera Category...
- other fossils by Houde and Haubold (1987) concluded that Palaeotis is a palaeognath and ****igned it to the same order as ostriches; the Struthioniformes...
- v t e Palaeognath genera Category...
- giants: evolution of the sensory ecology in elephant birds and other palaeognaths inferred from digital brain reconstructions". Proc. R. Soc. B. 285 (1890):...