Why flightless birds gave up flying, and what it cost them
Around 60 bird species cannot fly, and almost all of them evolved on islands with no ground predators. Then ships arrived.
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Around 60 bird species cannot fly, and almost all of them evolved on islands with no ground predators. Then ships arrived.
A salamander that never grows up, a whale with a tooth through its lip, and a fish that was supposed to have died with the dinosaurs.
Five species are in active de-extinction programs. What has actually been produced so far is narrower than the headlines suggest, and the distinction matters.
Six animals and two plants moved into the Extinct category in 2025. Most of them had been gone for decades before anyone made it official.