ratite

How To Use ratite In A Sentence

• Birds affected by this disease are fowls, bantams, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea.
• 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. Archive 2006-11-01
• They are found in mammals, turtles, squamates, and crocodilians, as well as a few bird taxa, particularly ratites and ducks.
• What aspect of the ratite genome accounts for the larger size relative to volant birds?
• Moas were ratites, flightless birds considered the sister group of all other birds.
• 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). Archive 2006-11-01
• Only a few naturalists of the last century came to grips with any of the ratite questions. The Song of The Dodo
• However chickens are closely related to tinamous and the ratites by post-cranial anatomy, particularly the structure of the clavicle.
• The ostrich is an exception, a ratite that inhabits the African mainland. The Song of The Dodo
• The living ratites (ostriches, emus, kiwis, and the extinct moa) are an ancient lineage of flightless birds.