"AN EXTINCT BIRD SPECIES HAS RE-EVOLVED ITSELF BACK INTO EXISTENCE AFTER 20,000 YEARS

A previously extinct species of #Bird has "re-evolved" itself into existence and returned to the island it once colonized thousands of years ago, researchers say. The species was completely wiped out when the island disappeared below the sea around 136,000 years ago. Once the bird became extinct after the flood, it took only 20,000 years for it to return and evolve into the flightless Aldabra rail bird again. According to researchers, this is one of the fastest recorded timelines of a bird losing its ability to fly, and the first and only known time that a species of bird has become flightless twice."