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This Bird Went Extinct, Then Evolution Recreated It
Sometime between 136,000 and 240,000 years ago, a flock of awkward, leggy birds took off from Madagascar and arrived at a pristine island in the Aldabra atoll 400km away. “This is nice,” they may have thought ” there were no predators, and the birds colonised the island. Without the threat of predation, they eventually lost…