Did This Bird Really Re-Evolve?
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About 136,000 years ago, on a coral atoll in the Indian Ocean, there lived a flightless bird. And when this atoll was swallowed up by the waves, that bird went extinct. ... Or did it? Did the flightless Aldabra rail evolve twice?
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Wish we'd see aldabra rails cohabed with aldabra tortoises in zoo's they're so cute
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so sad that all the rails went extinct in the 1800s when they were killed to make railroads
Fun fact! Their use in railroads led to breeding programs and an explosion in their populations, but it was ultimately the coming of cars and paved roads that led to their decline
@@Lolibeth Facts.
Boo - but also, bravo!
When my sustainability analyst sister says taking the train is more environmentally friendly than driving my car. No, Mikaela, train is murder!
Yes but it was necessary. It made the extinction of Indians, scientific name: native Americans, much easier.
Thank you for not falling down the aforementioned media rabbit hole of “this bird evolved twice” and instead establishing the probable distinction between the two iterations. And regardless, this was a very interesting video, as per usual!
Did you expect otherwise from this channel ?
Honestly I ignored all media coverage of this until I saw this video and.... it ended up so interesting
It didn’t even talk about the bird…
I mean anyone with 2 braincells know the distinction bro.
@@carlosandleonno, science needs taught, humans don’t inherently know anything
The species didn’t re-evolve, the part just got recast
clever…
In the future, we will either create mutually beneficial relationships with all of these people and animals whom we haven't yet met (such as these rails) which will be worth defending, or we will be guilty of being "Against" these harmonious relationships.
Some things never become less modern. People who love their job and wouldn't mind being left alone have freedom and are subject to their own intrapersonal "judgement" regarding any mistakes which they've made while "under oath". This is what guides people toward success. Some of us have no identity, nor oath. It seems like the oath is like a fountain from which identity is granted. So our focus on safety is superfluous, but success/progress are NOT. What if we were trying to MORE than simply get things "back to normal"? Do you want things to be Better Than Normal for the first time? What's the Oath for that? What's the identity of people who want things to be Better than normal? Do they not have identities yet?
We don't yet have a "Steve Irwin-ist" era of journalism where "history is defined by the victor".
@@seanrowshandel1680ark survival evolved story is that humans and everything on earth is Mosul extinct (except humans on genesis ships in stasis) and we leftbhind technology able to recreate any life that ever lived and even alter its code
Mostly not Mosul
hey mark that spoiler alert :)
Rail vs Crab looks like a real life Pokémon battle
"Rail uses peck. It is not very effective"
Or maybe Another Crabs Treasure?
It really looks like a turn based fight 😂😂
@@jamesoshea580 "Crab waves claw - misses."
@@user-un8tv1pp8mrail uses bird dance and it's attack increases
The clip where the rail starts pecking the tortoise and the tortoise looks like it’s going “hey cmon man”
"Did This Bird Really Evolve Twice?"
crabs: amateurs
This is why the rail is out for those crabs
Peace was never an option in the re-evolution community
@@primevalrex7266 The rails are leading an uprising against the crabs. It's a revolution
Trees: 😎
Crabs are ugly tho so who really won?
@@mhead1117 your mom is ugly
but seriously, do not insult crabs in my presence
If I had a nickle for every time a flightless aldabra rail evolved on the Aldabra atoll I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
"Only 2x? Those are rookie numbers."~ Crabs
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So we didn't get a re-release.
We got a remake.
Perfect description 😂
I was just interested until they showed the clip with the chicks OMIGOSH, THE ADORABLE RAIL BABIES! They are so FLUFFY!!!!!❤❤❤
It's the do-do bird 2.0!
Tbf most birds chicks are fluffy. :D
I also found it interesting how the babies are completely black but the adults are different colors.
Oh, I am an equal opportunity lover of fluffy chicklets 😂 we are birb folks over here. I agree about the color difference, all black growing into more colorful is somewhat unusual.
My favorite name for a flightless rail is an Atlantic species, the Inaccessible Island Rail. Named for its home island, which is not so much hard to get to as hard to set foot on.
Why does the rail at 2:15 have to be so rude? The Aldabra tortoise is just minding its own business
Nature said "extinct". Bird said "nuh uh"
Thank you for reminding me about the Reunion swamp hen, I'd forgotten about it since Brady last mentioned it
Bizarre beast suggestion: Nothobranchius killifish
Shortest lifecycle of a vertebrate species. Nothobranchius Fuzeri mature, spawn, and die within three months. They lay there eggs in mud that dries out for months until rain comes again. Bonus: they're super colorful and cool looking!
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That bird : HELLO BOYS, I'M BAAAACK
Ah no, wrong bird. It's Quaids rail that's attributed with that particular call.
It seems to me that this is just convergent evolution, but happening at different times.
Rather than two species of far different classifications evolving into similar forms, it's two species of far different times evolving into similar forms.
Your wording is incorrect by not presenting valid comparisons, but that aside, one point; convergence doesn't require the taxa to be contemporaneous, so that part is irrelevant.
@@Dr.Ian-Plect Thanks, Doc!
Awwww... those little black fluffybutt Rails are adorable! 🖤🖤 And this is (as Hank mentioned) like how things like to become crabs, except in birds, so it's not really so surprising, IMO. Interesting, yes - very! But not horribly strange. 😊
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Wow, those rails have deep and enduring beef with crabs, I'll bet the crabs have a tendency to predate rail eggs and young chicks. Or they just don't like the look of ocean bugs? 🤔
I mean, the crabs already won the first round, with that whole extinction of the first rail so... Maybe the new birds want generational revenge?
They're tasty
“I will gradually peck all the tasty bits from this pinchy bug.”
It can be all of the above. It's rarely if ever that black and white when it comes to nature.
We talking bout species that will each eat they own kind the moment any red shows from an injury
"Part of a train track" (Dad joke alert!) :-D
Flightless bird crabification
Lol thinking you've killed the last one and you start hearing the boys are back in town in the distance
These birds are a menace. Look at the way they peck the crabs and annoy the poor turtle..!
Wild that I had never heard the word gallinule before! We do have one species in Britain and it's super common, but we call it them moorhens.
Seeing the bird and the Crabs go after each other is so epic. The crabs are nearly the same size as the rails.. It makes the battle that much more intense
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Im convinced life on another planet wont seeem that bizarre, q lot of living things will look incredible similar, filling similar roles as on Earth, but there may be visible differences that at first glance seem uncanny, but really aren't effectively different all too much.
if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, smells like a duck, eats like a duck, raises young like a duck, exhibits all the exact same behaviors as a duck, evolved from the same older bird as a duck, is indistinguishable from a duck even under close scrutiny and under many microscopes, it might not be a duck, because one protein in it's RNA sequence is slightly different.
yeah that tracks logically.
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I just can't stop being entertained by the multiple clips of rails versus crabs.
Always good to see and hear Hank Greene!
I’m glad this is being addressed.
The coolest thing about evolution, is how things can fill in blanks in extinctions….
the correct term for siniment around a fossil is called a matrix.
When you're a paleontologist and someone says "Matrix":
"Ah, the sediment or rock that encloses a fossil. Fascinating!"
When you're a movie fan and someone says "Matrix":
"Red pill or blue pill? Welcome to the real world, Neo!"
I like the idea of an atoll in Seychelles that's basically a retirement home where a bird species can go to stop flying. It's sorta like Mackinac Island where they don't allow cars, except it's entirely different, actually.
Humans: How are you not dead?!
Rail: I have no idea!
I'm happy to see you still making videos. Hang in there.
136K years is well within the age at which DNA can be extracted. I wonder if these fossils were preserved in a way that would allow DNA extraction. Comparing two versions of this flightless rail is something evolutionary biologists would enjoy.
The only rail I see often is the spotted rail. Whenever I go mountain biking on my local trails, 10/10 they'll run so fast to hide. Some will even crash against dry twigs or stumble. 😂
Another possibility is the older version didn't become fully flightless and flight capable specimens migrated away from the island when it began to disappear. I guess that subspecies would have gone extinct by admixing with the cousin population of which it initially split though.
Wasn't the dodo a flightless pigeon, rather than a rail?
i think he meant that there's more extinct rails rather than dodos being rails
Technically I'm pretty sure dodos are part of the Paleaognathae
@@theapexsurvivor9538 no, I checked. They're definitely part of the Columbidae (pigeons).
He didn't say they were rails, just another flightless bird in the area!
“Crab-shaped” is such a delightful descriptor.
Omniman: “What’s another 17,000 years? I can always start again. Make another bird!”
Thanks for showcasing flightless island rails. The first animal I ever learned of as being extinct in the wild but still extant in zoos was the Guam Rail, from reading the placard about it next to its exhibit in the San Diego Zoo. It made a big impression on me at the time, but I wasn't the only one to be impressed by the Guam Rail's plight. Due to breeding & re-introduction programs, in 2019, the species became only the second bird after the California condor to be reclassified by the IUCN from extinct in the wild to critically endangered. Go flightless island rails!
This seems like Zelda games lore shenanigans
I noticed that Hank carefully avoided mentioning the third rail.
Well rails can swim, so it's theoretically possible to be the same population...
That was my thought, as well.
Interesting idea.
Are other islands close enough for the rails to swim to? Has anyone done DNA testing of flightless rails on separate but nearby islands to see if that gives us evidence?
Other theoritically possibility is both iterations of rail could technically produce fetile offspring and count as the same species. No idea if the genetic drift makes that impossible or not.
The rail is only found on Picard Island, where cats have been eradicated, not anywhere else.
Flightless Cormorants in Gálapagos are ground nesting birds. Thanks for your interestingly bizarre video
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I love rails. They are one of my favorite groups of birds.
Perhaps the core species has a recessive trait that will reduce the wings over time which also plays a role in some other positive core trait so that it isn't lost. Isolated populations without selective pressures will continue to reduce the wings until fully flightless thus the flightless rail is inevitable regardless of the species/subspecies of rail.
Please upload more rail vs crab footage!!!!
How long has this channel existed and how did I not know about it!?
Bird versus crab. A rivalry as old as time.
please do an episode on the Aldabra tortoise the second largest tortoise in the world and they are endangered. And you can get one from a reputable breeder causeway they are being bred commercially be aware they are the second largest tortoise they can weigh up to 500 lbs. And they're very very friendly.
Usually endangered animals can’t be bought because, breeders or not, rareness encourages poaching. What’s different in this case?
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@@foxgloved8922 aldabras are not endangered. They're all over their native environment.
Galapago tortoises, ARE endangered, and you can't get them.
Totally different species.
@@keithfaulkner6319 thanks for the clarification. OP made it sound like they are advocating for purchasing an endangered animal.
Aldabra tortoises are vulnerable (just one step from endangered) according to Wikipedia and PBS and IUCN. So @shaden0040's comment was incorrect, but there is indeed concern about the species. IUCN's website states their status was assessed in 1996, which is 28 years ago; I wonder if they are doing better or worse now. The IUCN website notes that (in 1996, I assume) "population severely fragmented", "continuing decline of mature individuals", "continuing decline in area, extent, and/or quality of habitat".
are you assuming they were extinct? perhaps maybe they found a way to survive.
remember.. "life uh... finds a way"
Unless they developed gills that seems unlikely from the information presented.
Another commenter said that rails can swim. Could they have swum to a nearby higher island, then descendants swam back when this island reappeared?
Under low stress conditions, and where various speciated groups can comingle, a genus can be restored, as well. For more, check out Lofthouse, Landrace Gardening. Great stuff!
Damn the rail was weaving like a boxer against that crab lol
The book "Improbable Destinies" is about this feature of evolution. It covers evolutionary experiments with introducing lizards to tiny islands in the Caribbean and allowing tiny fish to colonize pools upstream.
Cool, I was not expecting to see Hank Green here when I clicked on this video
Is the rail going after the crab, or the eggs it's carrying on it's underside? It looked to me like they were just trying to pluck off a few eggs, not take out the entire crabby boi.
So basically, it's a case of convergent evolution with a common ancestor. A evolved into B, and then later A evolved into C; B and C just happen to have similar traits because they evolved under similar (basically identical) conditions and started from the same form. Neat!
some evolve to become crabs and some become... barnacles. yeah, they are the same freaking family
Hank your new hair looks so great! I hope you think so as well. Keep up the awesome.
How many times have the sabertooth tiger re evolved??
(im waiting for the next round here)
Thanos: I am inevitable.
Some atoll bird: 🐦
They don't evolve twice. They were just island boys...
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Man, life isn't hard enough the firs time 'round?
Right? I would've just stayed home (Madagascar), flying all the way to Aldabra seems like such a chore. And now there are humans, to make matters worse
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It all comes down to the definition of a species. Two populations are considered two species if they cannot succesfully produce fertile offspring. A couple common reasons for this are breeding season mismatch, genital size or shape mismatch, and geographic isolation. In the case of these rail species, the seperation is temporal. Individuals of these species could never produce fertile offspring because there's a many millenia mismatch between their breeding seasons, on account of one of them being extinct.
That's a classic case of technically correct.
Weren't kidding about them curls! Good job though.
Similar to the Eastern Coyote, a newcomer to the Eastern US and a recent wolf-coyote hybrid, which has filled the niche of the nearly extinct Red Wolf, which was probably also a wolf-coyote hybrid from tens of thousands of years ago.
What I found interesting was in the scenes where you see the bird pecking at a relatively large crab, I noticed that it was a female crab carrying eggs and the bird isn't so much pecking at the crab as much as it is stealing the crabs eggs. That is one way to keep the land crab population under control.
Flight is a disadvantage...until it's a huge advantage.
You are wrong. The original rails were really, really, good at holding their breath. They carried on living on the island even when it was under water, occasionally swimming up to the surface for a fresh breath.
You know a evolution trait works well when you keep seeing copies of it in nature.
Did I see a reference to the Réunion swamphen? The official bird of Hello Internet?
What if some of them were just holding their breath until the island came back?
No crab is inevitable
I wonder if this channel ever attached the subject of the blue iguana
Coral atolls form at the top of seamounts, many of which are extinct volcanoes. Extinct volcanoes inevitably collapse, resulting in gradual subsidence and causing what was once an island paradise to sink beneath the waves. No sea level rises necessary. It just is what it is. That said, the ups and downs of sea level adds it's own consequences to this and, what can I say? It's never easy!
Good video
💙
Just reading about the Inaccessible Island Rail on Wikipedia and had to come back to this.
Yeah... we need some genome mapping here!
Man, they really love crab
I would hope that certain birds like that would develop the ability to at least float on top if the water. A lot like how Ducks do.. Obviously they won't have the waterproofing effect that most birds that evolved to interact with water have developed
How do they know that the first evolved rail was flightless?
So that's what happens when your spawn point gets obstructed.
Interesting, but when the atoll sank what says the birds, tho flightless, didn't just swim to other atolls?
How do we tell the difference between rail evolution and rail manifestation of ancestral flightless trait manifesting in the presence of their ground-foraging, low-predator island lifestyle? Are there species of birds that have adapted from flightless to flight, and back again, the way some animals have gone from aquatic to land back to aquatic?
Cetaceans and sirenians are both fully, secondarily aquatic.
How do they know the old Rail was flightless?
Was the dodo not related to pigeons ? Is there new evidence out ?
You are right! Dodo's are related to pigeons! We were just saying that they are the most famous flightless bird that lived on an island in the Indian Ocean, not that they were also rails.
@@BizarreBeasts Ah ok. Then i misunderstood. Thanks
Even if they were flightless they can still float and swim. Chickens can also float and swim.. . Some died but some swam or floated away when still alive then came back after they changed a bit
So this isnt two identical evolutions of the same parent species, but this _near_ identical evolution of the same parent species raises an interesting evolutionary possibility: could iterative evolution be a factor in the development of traits that are reinserted into the parent population?
Say theres an island that is periodically connected to the mainland when sea levels drop where flightless birds evolve during periods of isolation, that are then reintroduced to their flying relatives when the island becomes connected again. The level of speciation isnt so radical that the two populations can't interbreed, so the flightless gene is taken up by the flying population. This process repeats many times until enough copies of the flightless gene get introduced to the flying population that it primes the flying population to evolve flightlessness at the drop of a hat.
Or something similar. I was actually thinking about hammerhead sharks, but i dont think there's any evidence that they went through iterative evolution.
Eistein's definition of insanity is attempting the same wrong answer repeatedly with no adjustment after it fails.
It's not the same species, it's just a relative that took over their niche in the ecosystem.