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Difference between Emu and Moa

Emu vs. Moa

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the tallest native bird. Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand.

Cassowary

Cassowaries (muruk, kasuari, Biak: man suar, Papuan: kasu weri) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes.

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Casuariidae

The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary and the emu.

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Casuariiformes

The Casuariiformes is an order of large flightless birds that has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of emu.

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Dromaius

Dromaius (from greek δρομαίυς "runner") is a genus of ratite present in Australia.

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Elephant bird

Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.

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Flightless bird

Flightless birds have, through evolution, lost the ability to fly.

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Gastrolith

A gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stone, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Gizzard

The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (birds and other dinosaurs, crocodiles, alligators, pterosaurs), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans.

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Kiwi (bird)

Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Ostrich

Ostriches are large flightless birds.

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Ratite

A ratite is any of a group of mostly flightless birds within the infraclass Palaeognathae.

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Rhea (bird)

Rheas, also known as ñandus or South American ostrich, are moderately sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Tinamou

Tinamous are members of the order Tinamiformes, and family Tinamidae, divided into two distinct subfamilies, containing 46 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

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Trachea

The trachea (tracheae or tracheas), also known as the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the larynx to the bronchi of the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all animals with lungs.

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Vestigiality

Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species.

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