- 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...
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their eggs
being the
largest known for any amniote.
Elephant birds are
palaeognaths (whose
flightless representatives are
often known as ratites), and their...
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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...
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tinamous are in the
family Tinamidae, and in the
larger scheme are also
palaeognaths, a
group that
includes the more
widely known flightless ratites such...
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Neognathae ("new jaws").
Unlike other palaeognaths,
tinamous do have a
keeled sternum, but like the
other palaeognaths, they have a
distinctive palate. It...
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paleognath jaws are
among the few
apomorphic (more derived)
features of the
palaeognaths,
meaning that the
respective jaw
structure of
these groups is not informative...
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flightless birds.
Recent research shows that
these birds may
actually be
palaeognaths related to ostriches. It is
rather unambiguous that
geranoidids are either...
- giants:
evolution of the
sensory ecology in
elephant birds and
other palaeognaths inferred from
digital brain reconstructions".
Proceedings of the Royal...
- giants:
evolution of the
sensory ecology in
elephant birds and
other palaeognaths inferred from
digital brain reconstructions". Proc. R. Soc. B. 285 (1890):...
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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...
