The Guam kingfisher, last seen in the wild in 1986, is now poised to return to nature. After successful breeding in captivity, it is planned to release the offspring of this nearly extinct bird species on Palmyra Atoll. This remote atoll, located about 1,600 kilometers southwest of Hawaii, offers a
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A team of evolutionary biologists has reconstructed the nearly complete genome of the bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis), a flightless bird from New Zealand that went extinct 500 to 600 years ago. Researchers from Harvard University, East Carolina University, Osaka University, and the University of Toronto sequenced ancient DNA from a
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