Ratites (/ˈrætaɪts/) are a polyphyletic group consisting of all birds within the infraclass Palaeognathae that lack keels and cannot fly. They are mostly...

This is a list of ratites. Extinct (EX) – No known living individuals Extinct in the wild (EW) – Known only to survive in captivity, or as a naturalized...

ability to fly. There are over 60 extant species, including the well-known ratites (ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis) and penguins. The smallest...

representatives are often known as ratites), and their closest living relatives are kiwi (found only in New Zealand), suggesting that ratites did not diversify by vicariance...

infra-class Palaeognathae, a diverse group of flightless birds also known as ratites that includes the emus, rheas, cassowaries, kiwis and the extinct elephant...

extant branches of flightless lineages (plus two extinct clades), termed ratites, and one flying lineage, the Neotropic tinamous. There are 47 species of...

Elephant bird was a ratite; it could not fly, and its breast bone had no keel. Because Madagascar and Africa separated before the ratite lineage arose, Aepyornis...

(/ˈæptərɪks/). Approximately the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are the smallest ratites (which also include ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries and the extinct...

sister group to ratites. The nine species of moa were the only wingless birds, lacking even the vestigial wings that all other ratites have. They were...

the genus Dromaius and the third-tallest living bird after its African ratite relatives, the common ostrich and Somali ostrich. The emu's native ranges...

the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites: flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bones. Cassowaries are...

cassowary, alongside the dwarf cassowary and the northern cassowary. It is a ratite and therefore related to the emu, ostrich, rhea and kiwi. The Australian...

species that many have lost the ability to fly. This has occurred in several ratites including the kiwi and the cassowary as well as in the dodo and the kākāpō...

regarded as the sister group of the flightless ratites, but recent work places them well within the ratite radiation as most closely related to the extinct...

Rheidae /ˈriːɪdiː/ is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared in the Paleocene. It is today represented by the sole living genus Rhea...

and ratite birds. Eucalypts are the predominant trees in much of Australia and New Guinea. New Zealand has no native land mammals, but also had ratite birds...

Struthio wimani is an extinct species of ratite bird from the Pliocene of China. Zicha, Ondrej (1999) beautyofbirds.com (2010) beautyofbirds.com (2010)...

Struthio kakesiensis is an extinct oospecies of ratite bird known from eggshell fossils found in Laetoli, Tanzania. It was related to the modern day Struthio...

The moa were large, flightless birds with a sternum, but without a keel: ratites. They also had a distinctive jaw and palate. The origin of these birds...

Panbiogeographic tracks of the ratite birds, the southern beech Nothofagus, and the New Zealand frog Leiopelma...

Central and South America) and the ratites, which nowadays are found almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. The ratites are large flightless birds, and...

orders: Carinatae (from carina, "keel"), having a pronounced keel; and ratites (from ratis, "raft" – referring to the flatness of the sternum), having...

Dromaius (from greek δρομαίυς "runner") is a genus of ratite present in Australia. There is one extant species, Dromaius novaehollandiae, commonly known...

the Antarctic peninsula, Ratites may have similarly traveled overland from South America to colonise Australia; a fossil ratite is known from Antarctica...

more basal ratite. It may be related to the mysterious Remiornis, a putative ratite known from the Eocene of France. Various other ratite remains also...

fossils may also belong to the family. Ostriches are classified in the ratite group of birds, all extant species of which are flightless, including the...

Multituberculates and the first rodents widespread. First large birds (e.g. ratites and terror birds) and mammals (up to bear or small hippo size). Alpine...

species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus Struthio in the ratite order of birds. The other is the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes)...

in part from species of Australian origin, such as marsupial mammals and ratite birds. The flora of Indomalaya blends elements from the ancient supercontinents...

Eogeranoides is an extinct monospecific and dubious genus of ratite. The type and only known species, Eogeranoides campivagus, described in 1969 by Joel...