Re: New dope on ratites

["ptnorton" <ptnorton@msn.com>]

See a post by me from several years ago at
http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1998Jul/msg01020.html

PTN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: New dope on ratites


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> One final post tonight:
>       I think the living paleognaths are a holophyletic group, but whether
> the ratites are holophyletic is questionable.
>       I have a question about emus.  Is it true that emus have claws on
> their wings (like the young of hoatzins).  I heard this in an e-mail from
> someone who I don't very well, so don't know if it is true or not.
>                   -------Ken
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> >From: John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
> >Reply-To: jbois@umd5.umd.edu
> >To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> >Subject: New dope on ratites
> >Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:48:45 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >As earlier noted (a big thanks), this website has the abstracts from NAPC
> >2001 June 26 - July 1 Berkeley, California
> >http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/napc/mainabs.html
> >This one might be of interest to ratite origins folk.
> >(5/23/01)
> >HETEROCHRONY SUGGESTS MULTIPLE FLIGHT LOSS EVENTS IN THE RATITES
> >MARSHALL, Cynthia L., Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University,
> >Bozeman, MT, USA
> >Studied wing development/loss in ratite embryos.  Finds very different
> >sequence in emus vs. ostriches.
> >Proposes that emus and clan were small birds that became big, and
> >that ostriches were large fliers.  No indication (from abstract,
> >anyway) of when this flight loss may have happened.  Did ostriches become
> >flightless in the Miocene?  Is molecular evidence of close relationship
of
> >all ratites now to be mistrusted?  Dunno.
> >
> >
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