Origin of an isolated bird species on South Atlantic island
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 12:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
By wings or maybe riding on debris, that's how a now-flightless and rare species of tiny birds likely got to Inaccessible Island, an aptly named small island of volcanic origin in the middle of the South Atlantic. And it turns out that the bird, a rail, needs a name change.