Exploring the relationship between flamingos and grebes: The wonderful birds
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2013
Since 2001, at least five additional DNA studies have upheld this proposed relationship, and in 2005, George Sangster proposed the name “Mirandornithes” for the flamingo-grebe group, from Latin and Greek roots meaning “wonderful” (also, “admirable”) and “bird.” And that is wonderful indeed.
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