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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (3 children)

https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/aldabra-rail-the-bird-that-came-back-from-the-dead-by-evolving-twice

Technically not the same species though. It was a different population of the same genus that evolved to have the same trait (flightlessness) because their habitat changed back to how it was before. Their extinct relatives are still extinct.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's divergent evolution, there's convergent evolution, and then there's these guys who went through both, taking the scenic route but getting to the same place anyway

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Ecological niches need to be filled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Nature's version of that whol dire wolf thing

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Using this one weird trick (Darwin hates him!)

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