Did This Bird Really Re-Evolve?

Check out Manta Sleep here https://bit.ly/3OVmdhe and make sure to use bizarrebeasts for 10% off your order! And then, take a nap! 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? Would you like an Aldabra rail pin? https://complexly.store/products/bb-may-24-aldabra-rail Subscribe to the pin club here: https://complexly.store/products/bizarre-beasts-pin-subscription This month's pin is designed by Tara Reed. You can find out more about them and their work here: https://www.tarareedart.com/ You can cancel any time by emailing [email protected] Host: Hank Green [he/him] Follow us on socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrebeastsshow/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizarreBeastsShow/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social #BizarreBeasts #birds #evolution ----- 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 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192675#pone.0192675.ref009 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/files/20131781/Repeated_evolution_of_flightlessness.pdf https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/whtrai1/cur/introduction https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.1971.0022 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 https://carnegiemnh.org/a-match-made-by-coevolution/ 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 ------ Thumb Image Credit: Ian Davies / youtube.com/@theBirdsGuy Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Darwin%27s_finches_by_Gould.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dryolimnas_cuvieri_abbotti.jpg https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192675#references https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?taxonCode=whtrai1&subId=S120646384 https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?taxonCode=whtrai1&subId=S54342870 https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/50884719468/in/album-72157718074612568/ https://www.gettyimages.com/detail//1319245938 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail//1873922239 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1189180601 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1205723154 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1210192652 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1254845401 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1298712957 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1386115358 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1422137124 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1456401923 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1457477523 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1461341351 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1759260858 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1932566415 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2029974605 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/472674730 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/487966660 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/491293328 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/666002424 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/820677950 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1311051529 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105320184 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4425241 https://youtu.be/d0WD7VAPbFg?si=0sEIwVNVcVCJjYe7