Evidence from fossils brings to view suggests that ancient early ancestors of birds took to fly onto the

skies using the ability that which were provided to

them by the progress in development of the feathers, and, the genetic transformation modification of the two front-limbs into wings. This was during an
era when the continents contitinents of the Earth formed one land mass called Pangaea, dateingdating back approximately 200 milionmillion years ago.
However, Pangaea made a break spilit into two distinct separate land massessmasses, Laurasia (in the northern hemisphere) and Gondwana (in the
southern hemisphere). The formation of multiple continents from Gondwana resulted in the distribution of the ancestors of flight birds, which initially
inhabited various regions of Pangaea, to flourish in isolated regions of modern day Africa, South americaAmerica, and Australia. TheAn surprising fact
is that even though fossils of the ancestors of the ratites were found in Laurasia —in the northern hemisphere-— modern ratites mainly occupy regions
in the southern hemisphere.