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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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. For much more, see The history of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the penguin of Mauritius (PDF).

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