Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds.
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Examples for "ratitae "
Examples for "ratitae "
1 The road from Reptiles to Birds is by way of Dinosauria to the Ratitae .
1 Firefighters tried to shoo it off the road, but the ratite was having none of it.
2 Neither do any of the rest of the big birds in the ratite family, which includes the emu, rhea and cassowary.
3 When his team looked at the ancient DNA, they found it had far more in common with the kiwi than any other ratite .
4 All these flightless birds, as well as others such as the ostrich, are part of a group called ratites .
5 In Madagascar, the ancient ratites grew to gigantic proportions to fill that gap but in New Zealand it was a different story.
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