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Struthioniformes is an
order of
birds with only a
single extant family, Struthionidae,
containing the ostriches.
Several other extinct families are known...
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using ostrich fat.
Ostriches are of the
genus Struthio in the
order Struthioniformes, part of the infra-class Palaeognathae, a
diverse group of flightless...
- Previously, all the
flightless members had been ****igned to the
order Struthioniformes,
which is more
recently regarded as
containing only the ostrich. The...
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includes all "ratites" and
tinamous in
Struthioniformes.
Struthionidae is a
member of the
Struthioniformes, a
group of
paleognath birds which first...
- Late
Quaternary prehistoric birds are
avian taxa that
became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late
Pleistocene or
Early Holocene – and
before recorded...
- (Cracraft 1981 and the IUCN,
which includes all
paleognaths in an
expanded Struthioniformes).
Palaeognathae was
defined in the
PhyloCode by
George Sangster and...
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keeled sternum. Traditionally, all the
ratites were
place in the
order Struthioniformes. However,
recent genetic analysis has
found that the
group is not monophyletic...
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Palaeognathae Struthioniformes (ostriches)
Rheiformes (rheas)
Tinamiformes (tinamous)
Apterygiformes (kiwis)
Casuariiformes (emus and c****owaries)...
- This list of
fictional birds is
subsidiary to the list of
fictional animals. Ducks,
penguins and
birds of prey are not
included here, and are
listed separately...
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Flightless birds are
birds that
cannot fly. They have,
through evolution, lost the
ability to fly.
There are over 60
extant species,
including the well-known...
