Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
The new 48-genome analysis included only ostrich and tinamou DNA, so it doesn’t shed further light on paleognath interrelationships, but it does reinforce their distinctiveness from all other living birds. ’s placement of foot-propelled loons as basal to the whole group and penguins and tubenoses as sister taxa.
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