Hili: How did they evolve those wings?|
A: Very slowly.
Hili: Aren’t there any small, ratite-like starlings?
In Polish:
Hili: Jak one wyewoluowały te skrzydła?
Ja: Bardzo powoli.
Hili: A nie ma jakichś małych strusiowatych szpaków?
Monday: Hili dialogue
June 9, 2014 • 3:09 am
Talking of which, did Hili see the Science article last week?
Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/898.abstract?sid=40ef5def-118d-4366-b95a-ab6146c05939
New Zealand Moa, meanwhile, have been identified as more closely related to South American ancestral ratites and the living tinamous. Further development of the hypothesis published in Proc. Natnl. Academy of Sciences in 1992, based on genetic analysis of surviving moa soft-tissue. http://www.pnas.org/content/89/18/8741.full.pdf
Moa, no moa
🙁
I only recently saw a tinamou (not in the wild!) – they are fascinating birds, with interesting calls.
Maybe used to be but then cats happened.
Meals on wheels?
b&
More like meals on stilts.
Even better!
b&