Neognathae
Neognaths (Neognathae) are birds within the subclass Neornithes of the class Aves. The Neognathae include virtually all living birds; exceptions being their sister taxon (Palaeognathae), which contains the tinamous and the flightless ratites.
There are nearly 10,000 species of neognaths. Since the late Cretaceous period, from which the earliest fossils are known, they have undergone adaptive radiation producing the diversity of form, function, and behavior that we see today. It includes the order Passeriformes (perching birds), the largest clade of land vertebrates, containing some 60% of living birds and being more than twice as speciose as rodents and about five times as speciose as Chiroptera (bats), which are the largest clades of mammals. There are also some very small orders, usually birds of very unclear relationships like the puzzling hoatzin.
The neognaths have fused metacarpals, an elongate third finger, and 13 or fewer vertebrae. They differ from the Palaeognathae in features like the structure of their jawbones. "Neognathae" means "new jaws", but it seems that the supposedly "more ancient" paleognath jaws are among the few apomorphic (more derived) features of this group as compared to the neognaths.
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by Ninthe
Thank You
by: NintheCome over here
and i hold you`re hand
couse i`ve got something to say(got something to say)
i want you to know
that you are my man
and i am your woman
you are the sweetist thing
that i have ever seen
on my mind all the time
that is why i have to
thank you for being you
thank you for staying true
thank you for being strong
thank you holding on
thank you for being mine
thank you for making time
thank you for being sweet
thank you you`re the one i need
wherever i go
i keep you with me in my mind and my heart
(my mind and my heart)
know that this fear
when ever you hold me together alone
you are the sweetist thing
that i have ever seen
on my mind all the time
that is why i have to
thank you for being you
thank you for staying true
thank you for being strong
thank you holding on
thank you for being mine
thank you for making time
thank you for being sweet
thank you you`re the one i need
i know things like i like sometime
but you never give up
never give up you
picking me up picking me up
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like candy of the sweetist kind
i want you to know
want you to know i
never let go never let go
thank you for being you
thank you for staying true
thank you for being strong
thank you holding on
thank you for being mine
thank you for making time
thank you for being sweet