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About 136,000 years ago, on a coral atoll in the Indian Ocean, there lived a flightless bird. And when this atoll was swallowed up by the waves, that bird went extinct. … Or did it? Did the flightless Aldabra rail evolve twice?
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Sources:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/may/birds-on-an-island-in-the-indian-ocean-evolved-flightlessness-twice.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05329-1
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https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/files/20131781/Repeated_evolution_of_flightlessness.pdf
https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/whtrai1/cur/introduction
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6927662/
http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/1327/Seychelles+Islands+Foundation+working+to+classify+Aldabra+Rail+as+a+separate+species
www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrej-Spiridonov-2/publication/339308200_Moving_towards_a_better_understanding_of_iterative_evolution_an_example_from_the_late_Silurian_Monograptidae_Graptolithina_of_the_Baltic_Basin/links/605bd652299bf17367686519/Moving-towards-a-better-understanding-of-iterative-evolution-an-example-from-the-late-Silurian-Monograptidae-Graptolithina-of-the-Baltic-Basin.pdf
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192675#references
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Thumb Image Credit: Ian Davies / youtube.com/@theBirdsGuy
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dryolimnas_cuvieri_abbotti.jpg
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