Birds Got too Fat to Fly After Dinosaurs Vanished?

Monday, February 1, 2010 - 18:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The ancestors of ostriches and other flightless birds once flew, a new study says. They apparently grounded themselves in earnest, though, after dinosaurs were wiped out, new research suggests.

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