Posted on 05/12/2019 12:41:42 PM PDT by 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.
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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.
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“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.
Apparently it couldn’t walk either let alone fly, Glued in place, it couldn’t survive, Imagine that! You would need a vivid imagination to believe this story. College Campuses are outraged!
OR..........they were never really extinct, wouldn’t be the first time scientist were wrong.
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Thats funny right there.I dont care who you are.
Unless the entire land mass they were living on went underwater this hypothesis is absurd.
Ted Danson, Al Gore and other believers of GLOBULL WARMING, an island disappeared thousands of years ago...I need to know...WHO WAS DRIVING THE SUVs back then????
This article is about micro evolution, not evolution as held by the false, current, popular scientific consensus. This article is about change, variation within a species, which is derived only from preexisting genetic material, not from new genetic information. The genetic information was already there and refined into a different expression. It may have refined in the same direction as it previously had under the same environmental conditions. It would have been derived from the same type of genetic sources as the original.
The creature may well have not of become extinct as they supposed. That is another strong possibility.
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What useless bullshit. A bird that can only fly 2 inches above the ground? These climate imbeciles are truly pathetic.
Off-topic, but ‘Boneless Chicken Ranch’ was my first exposure to Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoons. I was instantly hooked.
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