RE: Five things about animal taxonomy that may or may not surprise you.
March 24, 2015 at 2:47 am
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2015 at 2:49 am by Whateverist.)
(March 21, 2015 at 6:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Some of your information seems outdated. New World vultures are now classed as more closely related to Accipitriformes than to Ciconiiformes.
On a somewhat related note, New Zealand is home to the world's largest parrot. It is alpine, about as intelligent as the corvids, and nests on the ground. How cool is THAT??
Boru
The Kea? It eats meat, doesn't it?
Which is more likely - that life forms adapted to deep ocean vents arose entirely separately from everything else - or - that one or the other arose first and gave rise to the other?
