Extinct flightless bird came 'back from the dead' because of a quirky evolutionary process

Fox News ^ | 5/09/19 | Chris Ciaccia

[Libloather]

A bird that had previously gone extinct came back to life thanks to a rare evolutionary process known as "iterative evolution."

The white-throated rail bird can presently be found on the island of Aldabra. Early fossils of the bird suggest it lived there thousands of years ago and died out because it could not fly to higher ground when rising sea levels threatened its safety. But thanks to "iterative evolution," which evolves similar body parts due to genetics from a similar ancestor, the bird came back from the dead.

**SNIP**

In order to make the determination that the extinct bird had evolved thanks to iterative evolution, they looked at fossils from 100,000 years ago, after sea-levels began to fall off during the last Ice Age. Upon inspecting the fossils, the wing bone showed "an advanced state of flightlessness," while the ankle bone showed properties that would suggest it was evolving towards flightlessness.

[Libloather]

Or, they can fly.

[Scrambler Bob]

Might Vince Foster arise?

[scope721]

“A bird that had previously gone extinct came back to life”

Zombie birds, that’s how it starts, the beginning of the end.

[webheart]

So sea levels were rising thousands of years ago.

[Flick Lives]

The white-throated rail bird can presently be found on the island of Aldabra. Early fossils of the bird suggest it lived there thousands of years ago and died out because it could not fly to higher ground when rising sea levels threatened its safety.

Amazing the sort of idiot sentences "reporters" will crank out without reflection. If they could not fly, presumably they could walk, else they're little more than an entree laying on the beach.

[dfwgator]

Life...uhh....finds a way.

[Zeneta]

Good thing it wasn’t a Parrot.

[Revel]

“Early fossils of the bird suggest it lived there thousands of years ago and died out because it could not fly to higher ground when rising sea levels threatened its safety.”

It must have been Man made global warming.

[Billthedrill]

Zombie birds, that’s how it starts, the beginning of the end.

Yup. That's how it all began...

[cyclotic]

These people are gullible, stupid and without any intellectual curiosity.

Does anyone really, honestly believe that an extinct species can come back?

If they really believed in evolution, they would understand that the animal would need billions of years to evolve back into the final creature, but in this case, they seem to have just quirkily re-appeared. Un huh, sure.

[Wuli]

It can’t possibly be that the creators blueprint is inherent, and only what is needed - as much as, as specifically as needed - is called upon, when needed. /sarc

[Lurkinanloomin]

Or they never were extinct.

[headstamp 2]

[[Or, they can fly.]]

“As God is my witness”

[Zeneta]

Or they never were extinct.

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Wait, What?

[jacknhoo]

Kind of like it never was extinct or evolved.

[Larry Lucido]

[SunkenCiv]

Early fossils of the bird suggest it lived there thousands of years ago and died out because it could not fly to higher ground when rising sea levels threatened its safety.

I guess the landscape wasn't compatible with their wheelchairs. :^) Thanks Libloather.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Or maybe evolution is a science, falsely so called, and it is God that is actually in control of life.

[AAABEST]

Or they never were extinct.

ding ding ding.

This article is just asinine on any number of levels.

[Zeneta]