The emu (/ ˈ iː m juː /; Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the tallest native bird. It is the only extant member of the genus Dromaius …

May 22, 2014 · Big, flightless birds like the ostrich, the emu and the rhea are scattered around the Southern Hemisphere because their ancestors once flew around the world, a new study …

The longstanding story of ratite evolution was that they share a common flightless ancestor that lived in Gondwana, whose descendants were isolated from each other by continental drift, …

May 14, 2014 · Ratites – a group of flightless birds including the emu, ostrich and extinct moa – were long believed to have evolved from a single flightless ancestor, but research published …

Under this initiative, systematic biologists from around the world are using DNA and other data to reconstruct the evolutionary origins and relationships of all living organisms. An emu, the …

They likely evolved from flying ancestors. It was thought that the ratites may have evolved from a common ancestor on the incredible supercontinent Gondwana, and diverged as various …

Jun 23, 2014 · As shifting tectonic plates broke Gondwana apart, the ancestral giant flightless birds were separated from each other and eventually evolved into the ostriches, emus, and …

May 22, 2014 · Ancient DNA reveals that birds lost the ability to fly on six separate occasions within 10 million years. It seems the extinction of the dinosaurs created a brief window for big …

The Emu is the big, flightless, vaguely ostrich-like bird of Australia. They are among the oldest bird families on earth, having evolved near the base of the avian tree of life (see summary in …

Here, we generated a new chromosome-level genome assembly of a female emu, and estimated the tempo of chromosome evolution across major avian phylogenetic branches, by comparing …