Explains how scientists think flightless birds evolved. There are no true species of flightless birds in North America. The African Ostrich, the Australian emu, cassowaries and kiwis and the South American rheas are all ratite birds, meaning they lack a breast bone. Other species are known to be flightless penguins, for example, but they are not classified as ratites.

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