This Creature Went Extinct 136,000 Years Ago – But Then Evolution Repeated Itself

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“Conditions were such on Aldabra, the most important being the absence of terrestrial predators and competing mammals, that a rail was able to evolve flightlessness independently on each occasion,” Martill added to his statement. It’s a truly remarkable process, but could a similar thing happen for any other extinct animals today?

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