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This is legitimately one of the coolest things I've ever heard of
Wait till you hear about crabs
Wait, tell me about crabs please!
It's apparently a highy effective body plan. Look up "Carcinization", things keep evolving into crabs, independently of one another.
Don't leave us hanging... You got them cool crab facts?
Animals just keep evolving into crabs lol. Apparently it's pretty effective.
The article implies they are all subspecies of the rail in the first place. So likely?
Theoretically would this bird be able to make fertile chicks with the extant species?
Probably? They both evolved from the same bird, so why not?
Isn't it possible that the "new" bird is functionally identical to the extinct one, but achieves this through different genetic mutations ? In that case, would the new bird still be able to breed with the extinct one ?
That is true, but there are subspecies which are made from two similar animals, like a horse and donkey make a mule.
Mules are sterile, though. It's much rarer for different subspecies to make viable, fertile offspring.
Yeah, I figured this stuff was way above my biology knowledge. I guess the real question is "what actually makes a subspecies unable to have fertile offspring with another subspecies?"
And I suspect the answer is a biology paper with a 3 digits number of pages
me too, little guy, me too.
Pkunk are (going to be) real?
Raiilll!!! Gimme 10! I need to pet them and boop the beakies.