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Palaeognathae consists of
ratites and the
flighted Neotropic tinamous (compare to Neognathae).
Unlike other flightless birds, the
ratites have no keel on their...
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avian history. Moreover,
tinamou nesting within flightless ratites indicates ancestral ratites were
volant and
multiple losses of
flight occurred independently...
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tinamous within the
ratites, more
derived than ostriches, or
rheas and as a
sister group to emus and kiwis, and this
makes ratites paraphyletic. A related...
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representatives are
often known as
ratites), and
their closest living relatives are kiwi (found only in New Zealand),
suggesting that
ratites did not
diversify by vicariance...
- This is a list of
ratites.
Extinct (EX) – No
known living individuals Extinct in the wild (EW) –
Known only to
survive in captivity, or as a naturalized...
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Zealand ratites, the moa,
recent DNA
studies have
identified its
closest relative as the
extinct elephant bird of Madagascar, and
among extant ratites, the...
- infra-class Palaeognathae, a
diverse group of
flightless birds also
known as
ratites that
includes the emus, rheas, c****owaries,
kiwis and the
extinct elephant...
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sister group to
ratites. The nine
species of moa were the only
wingless birds,
lacking even the
vestigial wings that all
other ratites have. They were...
- (/njænˈduːz/ nyan-DOOZ) or
South American ostrich, are
South American ratites (flightless
birds without a keel on
their sternum bone) of the
order Rheiformes...
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regarded as the
sister group of the
flightless ratites, but
recent work
places them well
within the
ratite radiation as most
closely related to the extinct...
