Given that a few other Eocene European tetrapods have been suggested to be particularly closely related to South American taxa (namely the ratite Palaeotis, the peradectine opossums and the supposed anteater Eurotamandua), Ameghinornis and Aenigmavis were thought to perhaps indicate that phorusrhacids had originated in Europe and later spread (via Africa) to South America (Peters & Storch 1993). From Wordnik.com. [More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest] Reference
Palaeotis, a small ratite argued by some to be a stem rhea, has more recently been found to be outside of the clade that includes rheas, ostriches, cassowaries and emus. From Wordnik.com. [More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest] Reference
So neither migration nor vicariance explain ratite biogeography. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
"Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds,". From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
Botswana, using isoleucine epimerization in ratite Larsson, L. (1996). From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Fridolfsson AK, Ellegren H (1999) A simple and universal method for molecular sexing of non-ratite birds. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
An old theory had it that many flightless birds that make up the ratite group, had the same flightless ancestor. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia News - Global] Reference
Eppley and his wife, Caroline, have been raising emu, a flightless bird belonging to the ratite family, since the mid-90s on their farm near Berlin. From Wordnik.com. [News/local from www.dailyamerican.com] Reference
This giant Moa (Dinornis giganteus) a member of the ratite family (the same family as the kiwi, emus and ostriches) and met its demise around the 13th century. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The findings are also consistent with living members of the ratite family, such as the kiwi, emu, and cassowary, in which the male is responsible for incubation. From Wordnik.com. [NZ On Screen] Reference
Oliver Haddrath & Allan J. Baker, "Complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences of extinct birds: ratite phylogenetics and the vicariance biogeography hypothesis,". From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
A chocobo is a fictional, large, and normally flightless galliforme/ratite bird capable of being ridden, that highly resembles the now-extinct South American Terror Birds. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
If you've no idea what a Great bustard is like, imagine a long-legged, long-necked omnivorous bird something like a cross between a crane and a small ratite ... or, look at the picture here. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Their findings suggest the ancestors of these ratite lineages each became flightless independently on different land masses some four to six times, at roughly the same time as the mass extinction that killed off dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
"Not only have we shown that the separate ratite lineages evolved too recently to have been on Gondwana before its continents drifted apart, but from our analyses we infer that at least ostriches, and possibly ratites as a whole, have their origins in the northern continents.". From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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