How’d We End Up Way Out Here?

November 7, 2018 Lisa Mungovan

A small flightless bird called the Inaccessible Island rail, dwells only on Inaccessible Island, between South America and Africa. Scientists first thought the bird walked there, on stretches of land that are now covered by water. New DNA analysis shows, they flew to the island 1.5 million years ago, then lost the ability to fly.