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Origin of an isolated bird species on South Atlantic island: Robust genetic analyses point to South American roots for tiny flightless rails that only live and thrive on Inaccessible Island

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By wings or maybe riding on debris, that's how a now-flightless and rare species of tiny birds likely got to Inaccessible Island, an aptly named small island of volcanic origin in the middle of the South Atlantic. And it turns out that the bird, a rail, needs a name change.

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"Origin of an isolated bird species on South Atlantic island: Robust genetic analyses point to South American roots for tiny flightless rails that only live and thrive on Inaccessible Island", MachPrinciple, November 04, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/Origin-of-an-isolated-bird-species-on-South-Atlantic-island-Robust-genetic-analyses-point-to-South-American-roots-for-tiny-flightless-rails-that-only-live-and-thrive-on-Inaccessible-Island

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