Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research

Sunday, September 7, 2008 - 17:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Large flightless birds of the southern continents -- African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi -- do not share a common flightless ancestor as once believed.

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