This Bird Went Extinct, Then Evolution Recreated It

Sometime between 136,000 and 240,000 years ago, a flock of awkward, leggy birds took off from Madagascar and arrived at a pristine island in the Aldabra atoll 250 miles away. "This is nice," they may have thought-there were no predators, and the birds colonized the island. Without the threat of predation, they"