Study: kiwi and elephant bird belong to same lineage

Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

Brooks HaysWASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- New Zealand's pint-sized kiwi and Madagascar's now-extinct, but once-towering, elephant bird are related -- two offshoots of the group of birds called ratites.

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