Assertion: ostrich's ancestor | /r/CapableOf | reach new zealand
Facets:
value: independently
type: MANNER
value: from moas
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Research published in 2013 on an extinct genus, Proapteryx, known from the Miocene deposits of the Saint Bathans Fauna, found that it was smaller and probably capable of flight, supporting the hypothesis that the ancestor of the kiwi reached New Zealand independently from moas, which were already large and flightless by the time kiwi appeared.