TIL that the Aldabra white-throated rail has evolved back into existence TWICE. The rail is an example of a rarely observed phenomenon called iterative evolution, in which the same ancestral lineage produces parallel offshoot species at different points in time. by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 4:06 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
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3 Comments TIL that evolution has brought a flightless bird back from extinction through a process called iterative evolution.The Aldabra rail was wiped out 136K years ago by a major flood, but its relative, the white-throated rail, repopulated Aldabra Island 20K years ago and re-evolved into the lost species. by whatilearned June 1, 2021, 9:25 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
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