Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 23:15

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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