Old world bird in a new world rainforest
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 09:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Sapayoa, a rainforest bird from Central and South America, is an evolutionary enigma -- genetic analysis shows that its closest relatives are bird species living across the ocean in Asia and Africa. Now, new research demonstrates for the first time that its natural history links it to its evolutionary relatives thousands of miles away.