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Yes, that’s right: flightless birds! Do you ever wonder how flightless birds get around? ... Flightless Birds - now, how did that happen? Scientists believe that the flightless birds evolved from birds that d id fly once upon a time. They may have gradually lost their need and power for flight because they had no predators.
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www.iwrc-online.org/kids/Facts/Birds/flightless.htm
www.iwrc-online.org/kids/Facts/Birds/flightless.htm
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Flightless birds evolved from birds that could fly. Many flightless birds evolved on islands that had few predators from which the birds needed to escape. Others use fast swimming or running as an alternative to flying.
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Flig...
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Flightless.shtm
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Flightless birds evolved from birds that could fly. Many flightless birds evolved on islands that had few predators from which the birds needed to escape. Others use fast swimming or running as an alternative to flying.
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www.enchantedlearning.com/painting/Flightless.shtml
www.enchantedlearning.com/painting/Flightless.shtml
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The flightless birds of New Zealand are a principal feature of the 'edge ecology' of the country. In an island environment isolated from the rest of the world for more than 80 million years, and free of mammal predators, a number of birds developed flightlessness and eccentric habits.
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www.terranature.org/flightlessBirds.htm
www.terranature.org/flightlessBirds.htm
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Flightless birds ... Pages in category "Flightless birds". The following 53 pages are in this category, ...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flightless_birds
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flightless_birds
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TRIVIA LOVERS PLEASE NOTE: We have gotten tons (or gigs) of email -- this is for entertainment only, the results were compiled from a number of sources, including books of lists and other such sources. ... Top 10 Largest Flightless Birds...
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The story of birds that don't fly just got a lot weirder. ... The result also undermines continental drift as the explanation for how flightless birds became so far-flung — ostriches today live in Africa; rheas in South American; emus and cassowaries in Australia and New Guinea;
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www.livescience.com/animals/080908-flightless-birds.htm...
www.livescience.com/animals/080908-flightless-birds.html
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