- (palaiós) 'old' and γνάθος (gnáthos) 'jaw') is an
infraclass of birds,
called paleognaths or palaeognaths,
within the
class Aves of the
clade Archosauria. It is...
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nocturnal extant ratite. The
understanding of
relationships within the
paleognath clade has been in flux. Previously, all the
flightless members had been...
- evidence.
Struthionidae is a
member of the Struthioniformes, a
group of
paleognath birds which first appeared during the
Early Eocene, and
includes a variety...
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Neognathae means "new jaws", but it
seems that the
supposedly "more ancient"
paleognath jaws are
among the few
apomorphic (more derived)
features of the palaeognaths...
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clade consisting of all
other modern birds except the
galliformes and
paleognaths. Due to
their aquatic nature, most
species are web-footed. Anseriformes...
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group of dinosaurs,
quickly diversified from the very few
neognath and
paleognath clades that
survived the
extinction event, also
radiating into multiple...
- Yonezawa, T.; et al. (2017). "Phylogenomics and
Morphology of
Extinct Paleognaths Reveal the
Origin and
Evolution of the Ratites".
Current Biology. 27...
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became secondarily flightless,
mirroring the loss of
flight in
modern paleognaths like the ostrich. The
discoveries of
further basal dromaeosaurids potentially...
- The
paleognaths (Palaeognathae) are a
clade of bird
species of
gondwanic distribution in Africa,
South America, New Guinea,
Australia and New Zealand...
- that
penguins belong to a
clade of
Neoaves (living
birds except for
paleognaths and fowl) that
comprises what is
sometimes called "higher waterbirds"...
