Mutating Australian white ibis could diverge from its rural cousins, or save them, scientists say
by Tory Shepherd from on (#5RG4Y)
Researchers take sticky beak at bin chicken DNA to see if city-dwellers could revive country populations
City bin chickens could mutate - or they could save their dwindling country cousins, new research is suggesting.
Global heating, increasing drought, water extraction and habitat degradation have driven the Australian white ibis out of inland river systems.
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