{"id":30385,"date":"2025-02-26T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30385"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:51:42","slug":"palaeognath-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/palaeognath-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Palaeognath Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Palaeognath Birds Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A new study by scientists from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom has found that Palaeognath Birds like Emus and rheas are not exactly \u2018dumb\u2019 as assumed to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Palaeognath Birds<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are grouped together on the basis of their <strong>distinctive palate morphology<\/strong>, from which they receive their name (&#8220;old jaw&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>Most of the birds classified in the <strong>Palaeognathae are also flightless<\/strong>, but not all flightless birds are classified in the Palaeognathae.<\/li>\n<li>These 50 bird species are very different from the other birds on the planet.<\/li>\n<li>They are the <strong>largest and heaviest avian specimens<\/strong> on Earth and may represent some of the first birds to evolve from dinosaurs.<\/li>\n<li>These birds are <strong>classified into two groups:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tinamiformes:<\/strong> These species have a keeled <strong>sternum and can fly<\/strong> (weakly), which include the tinamous of South and Central America; and the\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ratitae, or ratite birds:<\/strong> They have flat sterna and reduced wings, and <strong>cannot fly at all. Examples: <\/strong>The African ostrich, the rhea of South America the Australian emu and New Guinea cassowary; and the kiwi of New Zealand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Palaeognath Birds FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> What is a Palaeognathae in zoology?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Palaeognaths (Palaeognathae) comprise the large, flightless living ratites (emu, ostrich, cassowary and rhea) and their smaller, flying cousins; tinamou.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> What is the difference between ratitae and carinatae birds?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Ratitae are running birds but they do not help in flying whereas carinate have well developed wings and are flying birds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/emus-and-rheas-not-as-dumb-as-previously-thought-finds-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palaeognath Birds are grouped together on the basis of their distinctive palate morphology, from which they receive their name (&#8220;old jaw&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}