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Speed

can run for a long time at a speed of 55 km/h (34 mph) or even up to about 70 km/h (43 mph) -- yes, both have sources, but either one is correct or the other. Which is it? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:56, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have clarified that the higher speed is for short bursts (the other is for periods like 30 minutes).Elroch (talk) 12:03, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Arsinoe II statue

The reference linked to the comment about the statue of Arsinoe II doesn't appear to mention her likeness riding an ostrich anywhere in the text -- it just describes a statue of her head. Is the ostrich statue mentioned elsewhere in the journal? 73.241.224.141 (talk) 22:42, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Living dinosaur" removal

The article describes ostriches as the "largest living dinosaur", referencing an offhanded remark from a 2017 Physics World article, "Consider the ostrich, the largest living dinosaur." Birds are sometimes called "living dinosaurs" because birds share some important anatomical features with some dinosaurs. But to say an ostrich is the "largest living dinosaur" is misleading because it suggests the modern common ostrich was a contemporary of dinosaurs over 65 mya. Ostriches emerged around 15 mya. If "largest living dinosaur" does not mean to imply ostriches were contemporaries of ancient dinosaurs, then it only means that birds are "living dinosaurs", and the ostrich is the largest bird, in which case the phrase would be redundant. Given edit comments, it looks like this issue has been discussed, but not on the talk page. DidgeGuy (talk) 15:53, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oooh, let me hazard a guess who felt compelled to insert that one... yep, called it [1]. Well, after the embarassing song-and-dance at bee hummingbird I feel little inclined to spend another few weeks challenging that editor's peculiar hobby of hitting readers over the head with the smallest/largest/whatever bird-is-dinosaur mallet, so I'll register my agreement that this has no business being in the lede, and leave it at that. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:18, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]