On a ring-shaped reef in the Indian Ocean, a species of bird evolved to be flightless ... when the world was in the clutches of an ice age, sea levels fell, and the atoll reappeared at the ...

A flightless bird that became extinct when its home island ... years ago when the sea-levels fell during the subsequent ice age and the atoll was recolonised by flightless rails.

The white-throated rail is a chicken-sized bird, indigenous to Madagascar ... levels fell during the subsequent ice age and the atoll was recolonised by flightless rails. The researchers compared ...

Fossils reveal that an extinct species of flightless bird returned from the ... something must have happened for it to have returned.” The Ice Age is what happened: it caused sea levels to ...

A bird that had previously gone extinct came back ... after sea-levels began to fall off during the last Ice Age. Upon inspecting the fossils, the wing bone showed "an advanced state of ...

About 136,000 years ago, a flightless bird on an island in the Indian Ocean ... the island re-emerged when sea levels dropped due to an ice age. White-throated rails migrated there from Madagascar ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

But, turns out, the Ice Age was too harsh on them and these birds employed an ingenious ... Basically, Antarctica was once ...

An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years ago.