Re: Big birds on Paleoworld

[ornstn@inforamp.net (Ronald Orenstein)]

GO writes:

>. It's
>also interesting that phorusrhacids even managed to convert the vestigial
>claws in their ancestors' wings into apparently usable claws.
>
>

This is news to me (I gather it's a recent discovery).  Details?
Referrences?  Certainly the living seriemas are not put together like that.
Were the claw better developed tan on (say) a hoatzin chick?
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