Cladogram (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Cladogram

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This is a comparative representation of waterbird endocasts (as viewed from the top of the brain) mapped onto a supertree of waterbirds. The supertree shows evolutionary relationships between different bird species. The endocast of the penguin the researchers studied is Waimanu sp.

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Courtesy of James Proffitt

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