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- Title
An Introduction to Evolution and Palaeobiology of Flightless Birds.
- Authors
Buffetaut, Eric; Angst, Delphine
- Abstract
Rather, the papers published here illustrate both the diversity of flightless birds and the multifarious approaches that can be used to study them, from stratigraphy and functional anatomy to phylogenetic analysis and bone histology. In some cases, loss of flight is associated with strictly terrestrial habits in usually large forms, as in living and fossil "ratites" and in various extinct groups of giant ground birds (gastornithids, dromornithids, phorusrhacids, etc.). Although flight is often considered as one of the most salient characteristics of birds, in the course of their evolution various avian lineages have lost the ability to fly.
- Subjects
PALEOBIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL evolution; NEUROPLASTICITY; DEPTH perception; BIRD diversity; PALEOGENE
- Publication
Diversity (14242818), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 4, p296
- ISSN
1424-2818
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.3390/d14040296