Did This Bird Really Re-Evolve?

[@BizarreBeasts]

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[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

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[@graffic13]

Wish we'd see aldabra rails cohabed with aldabra tortoises in zoo's they're so cute

[@huldu]

I have a serious question for people using a thing like this, is it because you can't sleep due to lights/sounds etc? I used to live a somewhat rough life early on so I got used to sleeping with sounds and lights(along with sun) without any issues. I always thought this was normal until I heard that a lot of people are struggling which came as a surprise to me. Makes me wonder how long it took to adapt to in the first place. To be completely honest I do need some sort of sound going on to be able to sleep so that's the downside I have a hard time sleeping in complete silence but that isn't an issue when you're living in a big city.

[@BriJBo]

I already have the Manta Sleep Mask Pro from a different sponsored video and use it every day at work to take naps on my 15-minute breaks. I work in a warehouse, but finding a spot to snooze in is pretty simple. Just need three tall totes: 1 as a seat and the other 2 stacked very strategically like a table. The mask is cool cause the eye cups are modular and can be pulled off and reoriented on the mask itself due to velcro. The cups also don't put pressure on your actual eyeballs like generic sleep masks do since they're cup shaped rather than flat.

[@michaelweisang]

Cant seems to use the code, is it exclusively for US?

[@tylerknowsanimals]

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!

[@omnirath]

Did you expect otherwise from this channel ?

[@sleepyninjarin7971]

Honestly I ignored all media coverage of this until I saw this video and.... it ended up so interesting

[@charliemcconlough]

It didn’t even talk about the bird…

[@carlosandleon]

I mean anyone with 2 braincells know the distinction bro.

[@liamevans7661]

@@carlosandleonno, science needs taught, humans don’t inherently know anything

[@windsorsa]

Rail vs Crab looks like a real life Pokémon battle

[@jamesoshea580]

"Rail uses peck. It is not very effective"

[@y0nd3r]

Or maybe Another Crabs Treasure?

[@NinaDmytraczenko]

It really looks like a turn based fight 😂😂

[@FischerNilsA]

@@jamesoshea580 "Crab waves claw - misses."

[@godshowman1878]

​@@FischerNilsArail uses bird dance and it's attack increases

[@nothereanymore3941]

The clip where the rail starts pecking the tortoise and the tortoise looks like it’s going “hey cmon man”

[@skyem5250]

so sad that all the rails went extinct in the 1800s when they were killed to make railroads

[@Lolibeth]

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

[@c.jishnu378]

​@@Lolibeth Facts.

[@luurankoiset9120]

Boo - but also, bravo!

[@atgosh]

When my sustainability analyst sister says taking the train is more environmentally friendly than driving my car. No, Mikaela, train is murder!

[@nickdarr7328]

Yes but it was necessary. It made the extinction of Indians, scientific name: native Americans, much easier.

[@Beanedict_C]

The species didn’t re-evolve, the part just got recast

[@HogBurger]

clever…

[@seanrowshandel1680]

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".

[@zathtanks]

@@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

[@zathtanks]

Mostly not Mosul

[@bmolitor615]

hey mark that spoiler alert :)

[@graemebloodworth8991]

i would love to get a plants series like this. Theres SO many weird plants. Sandbox trees and exploding cucumbers!

[@graemebloodworth8991]

Also i would love to consult if something were to come of that...

[@suzettehenderson9278]

Check out floralogic

[@skivvia]

Yes! and the Gympie Gympie from Australia

[@victoriaeads6126]

That would be pretty wonderful. All the stinky plants, exploding plants, plants that just ALWAYS choose violence, plants that will both sting you AND can be used to soothe the sting they just made, plants that give you sun sensitivity for extended periods of time...

[@Adi-8529]

That would be awesome!!

[@victoriaeads6126]

I was just interested until they showed the clip with the chicks OMIGOSH, THE ADORABLE RAIL BABIES! They are so FLUFFY!!!!!❤❤❤

[@MaoRatto]

It's the do-do bird 2.0!

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Tbf most birds chicks are fluffy. :D

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I also found it interesting how the babies are completely black but the adults are different colors.

[@victoriaeads6126]

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.

[@monroerobbins7551]

Agreed, they’re little babies!! They’re friend shaped for sure

[@T0nyTheArtist]

So we didn't get a re-release. We got a remake.

[@RadeticDaniel]

Perfect description 😂

[@radagastwiz]

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.

[@messyhair42]

Thank you for reminding me about the Reunion swamp hen, I'd forgotten about it since Brady last mentioned it

[@leothebugnerd]

"Did This Bird Really Evolve Twice?" crabs: amateurs

[@primevalrex7266]

This is why the rail is out for those crabs Peace was never an option in the re-evolution community

[@dingchat555]

@@primevalrex7266 The rails are leading an uprising against the crabs. It's a revolution

[@LilFeralGangrel]

Trees: 😎

[@mhead1117]

Crabs are ugly tho so who really won?

[@leothebugnerd]

@@mhead1117 your mom is ugly but seriously, do not insult crabs in my presence

[@AroundTheBlockAgain]

What an odd poetry that the thing we think of as "the most bird-like" thing about birds - their flight - is something they "seem to hate doing" since it's so energy intensive, and is one of the first things they ditch given half a chance and no penalties for doing so.

[@thelastsliceofbread4098]

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?

[@Essex121514]

"Only 2x? Those are rookie numbers."~ Crabs

[@SchuylerS]

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!

[@neutralseife8419]

OMG YES killifish are so cool! I have a species of longer living ones and its interesting how their eggs have a far longer incubation period then most fish of that size. I guess that is because their ancestors where seasonal fish that readapted to a "normal" livecycle. I don't know if this is actually the case for this genus (Epiplatys), but i heard that there is genetic evidence in some killifish, that they have switched between stategies multiple times in the past, which is just evolution at it's finest.

[@moekitsune]

YES KILLIFISH ARE SO COOL

[@thatpandaz6094]

IS THIS MAN ON EVERY KZbin CHANNEL????

[@greywolf7577]

Wait until you meet Simon Whistler.

[@evancombs5159]

@@greywolf7577 I feel like every day he starts a new channel that I then tell KZbin to block, only for me to get recommended a new video from him on another channel the next day.

[@mildlydazed9608]

There’s 10 people somehow creating every channel lol

[@cooliipie]

Science channels

[@alexanderren1097]

Omniman: “What’s another 17,000 years? I can always start again. Make another bird!”

[@BlackReshiram]

im more concerned with how insanely cute these rails are oml

[@victoriaeads6126]

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? 🤔

[@NinaDmytraczenko]

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?

[@Lolibeth]

They're tasty

[@sophierobinson2738]

“I will gradually peck all the tasty bits from this pinchy bug.”

[@RailfoxStudios]

It can be all of the above. It's rarely if ever that black and white when it comes to nature.

[@deeespinal9666]

We talking bout species that will each eat they own kind the moment any red shows from an injury

[@MrT_Rex]

That bird : HELLO BOYS, I'M BAAAACK

[@YaManImCool]

Ah no, wrong bird. It's Quaids rail that's attributed with that particular call.

[@GaryDunion]

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.

[@dariuscasaus57]

Why does the rail at 2:15 have to be so rude? The Aldabra tortoise is just minding its own business

[@RingoBuns]

Straight up just poking him in the eye. That’s so rude!

[@mattfleming86]

Behaviorally they really remind me of chickens. Chickens do the same things. I have one who always tried to eat the little brown mole on my leg. It's like they get fixated on an image and decide "i'ma try to eat that"

[@DeathlordSlavik]

@@mattfleming86 They think it is something like a tick or maybe something that is stuck on you like part of plant you brushed up against or dead skin as many species of birds will clean other animals of things like ticks or build up of dead skin and plant material. Same thing is happening in the video the bird sees something like a small bug or dead skin and wants to eat it. Even birds like crows will do this when it comes to ticks which shows just how common the behavior is.

[@njlkerins]

"Part of a train track" (Dad joke alert!) :-D

[@LeBatteur]

“Crab-shaped” is such a delightful descriptor.

[@annsidbrant7616]

Always good to see and hear Hank Greene!

[@zoolover4669]

I love rails. They are one of my favorite groups of birds.

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

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.

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

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.

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect Thanks, Doc!

[@Noxturne09]

Please upload more rail vs crab footage!!!!

[@iamsheel]

This seems like Zelda games lore shenanigans

[@katarinavalentine]

Damn the rail was weaving like a boxer against that crab lol

[@ChaosMagnet]

Thank you for remaining pro-science, pro-reality in the ugly face of anti-scientific nonsense, ‘intelligent’ design silliness, and mass belief in stupid conspiracies! This channel and the others from these creators are a lovely breath of fresh air. Fresh, tropical, island air, even!

[@MaoRatto]

Then again hope these aren't the science deniers that believe in non-binary as it's a trend I am noticing. If going to be fully pro-science then you must throw all unscientific stuff out the window.

[@basiliskboy17]

@@MaoRatto nonbinary identities aren't anti-science, they're an application of the social sciences and the social construct of gender identity. Please stop acting like everything that makes you feel funny inside is somehow fake

[@fko3143]

Evolution never ends!

[@LDProductionsClass]

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.

[@saucesamurai8768]

5:16 that crab is really pissed

[@acarnold]

Let’s say: “near identical adaptations of the same root species evolved on two separate occasions”

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

Wasn't the dodo a flightless pigeon, rather than a rail?

[@cecillianhater]

i think he meant that there's more extinct rails rather than dodos being rails

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Technically I'm pretty sure dodos are part of the Paleaognathae

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

@@theapexsurvivor9538 no, I checked. They're definitely part of the Columbidae (pigeons).

[@mayaenglish5424]

He didn't say they were rails, just another flightless bird in the area!

[@Gunter4life]

This birb always comes back

[@Rubrickety]

I noticed that Hank carefully avoided mentioning the third rail.

[@PirateOfTheNorth]

Cool, I was not expecting to see Hank Green here when I clicked on this video

[@Shaden0040]

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.

[@foxgloved8922]

Usually endangered animals can’t be bought because, breeders or not, rareness encourages poaching. What’s different in this case?

[@BizarreBeasts]

We have done an episode on giant tortoises! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJDKaoZmjthgpposi=9L_F0vwKV-PdVpVg

[@keithfaulkner6319]

​@@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.

[@foxgloved8922]

@@keithfaulkner6319 thanks for the clarification. OP made it sound like they are advocating for purchasing an endangered animal.

[@JaniceinOR]

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".

[@cmoor8616]

Thanos: I am inevitable. Some atoll bird: 🐦

[@RingoBuns]

Omg they’re just little guys

[@Allegheny500]

Penguins are flightless birds but water is a second home to them, many birds like seagulls can float, so the question is, did those rials go extinct when the island flooded? Or did some of them float to another island somewhere and return later after some evolutionary tweaking.

[@jeremysart]

How long has this channel existed and how did I not know about it!?

[@aliastheabnormal]

Bird versus crab. A rivalry as old as time.

[@existenceisillusion6528]

It should be noted that the variations of evolution are all the same evolution. It is only the circumstances that change.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

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. 😊

[@daniell8331]

In New Zealand we have 2 that are flightless and another 2 that are/were getting that way.... .....before the greatest selection pressure of all time showed up that is.

[@SmolFenFen]

The thing that gets me, if that bird evolved on that atoll that could have been swallowed up by waves... What obscene ungodly impossible level of probability had to happen for that atoll to not get swallowed up by waves for the millions of years needed?

[@robertjones2811]

All dogs were the same breed 5,000 years ago.

[@alexanderno1093]

so a creature with the same pieces, on eye level at least, put together a very similar puzzle 😱

[@emmavata9159]

This tactic might work on the dodo next year

[@elijahbachrach6579]

Species translates to something like “semblance/form.” When the word was first used by scientists they meant “these all have the exact same form and do the exact same thing.”

[@NitroIndigo]

Carl Linnaeus.

[@Zach-ku6eu]

Weren't kidding about them curls! Good job though.

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

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

[@lauracassidy8152]

Hank your new hair looks so great! I hope you think so as well. Keep up the awesome.

[@Iknowtoomuchable]

"I... am inevitable." -This bird, apparently.

[@alexandraleimbach8290]

Was the dodo not related to pigeons ? Is there new evidence out ?

[@BizarreBeasts]

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.

[@alexandraleimbach8290]

@@BizarreBeasts Ah ok. Then i misunderstood. Thanks

[@Brian-uy2tj]

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.

[@Shaden0040]

the correct term for siniment around a fossil is called a matrix.

[@revolution1237]

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!"

[@Waaaghka]

Nature said "extinct". Bird said "nuh uh"

[@thehantavirus]

a correction, dodo is a pigeon relative not a rail.

[@Kimmaline]

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.

[@OorahhColeman]

Just reading about the Inaccessible Island Rail on Wikipedia and had to come back to this.

[@capnstewy55]

Flight is a disadvantage...until it's a huge advantage.

[@futball51]

Did I see a reference to the Réunion swamphen? The official bird of Hello Internet?

[@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting]

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!

[@spoookley]

i mean, if they’re omnivorous, an island bird, & alive today, that makes me think that they could’ve just swam? have we observed them swimming to find food before? cuz an atoll is a great place to learn, especially if your home regularly becomes flooded. if you’re caught up in a storm at sea, it’s probably safer at the edge of the water then amongst the clouds

[@NewAge374]

That could have happened but it's not the most obvious solution. Birds fly, duh, but particularly the family of Gruiformes (also features cranes) are less keen on actual swimming than proper waterfowl (Anseriformes). So comparing the behaviour of extant relatives the proposal of flying from Madagascar to Aldabra is more logical. It is the first hypothesis scientists in ornithological evolution tend to explore to explain species distribution. In addition, rails and crakes are often found near aquatic habitats and feature some adaptations for living on wet surfaces or in the water. But pedalling along the 420km from Madagascar to Aldabra (or the other way around) across an ocean would be a rather extraordinary feat for a bird that's poorly adapted to marine life, without any accidents on the way.

[@JaniceinOR]

​@@NewAge374 Could the rail have swum over from a nearby island, rather than from Madagascar? Or been swept from one nearby island to another on a raft of storm debris?

[@NewAge374]

@@JaniceinOR I don't remember what the video showed exactly but Madagascar would've been the closest island where the ancestral species of rail comes from. What you say sure is possible, but the point of my earlier comment was to say that it's not the most likely origin, which means you need stronger evidence to suggest it compared to the theory of re-evolving that this video proposes.

[@JaniceinOR]

@NewAge374 Thank you for clarifying the relevant geography (that Madagascar is the closest other land, and that it is 420 km away). I had not looked at a map, and other comments had sounded as if there were nearby islands.

[@wingedhussar1453]

Wow that evolution like non fligntess in animal happened in 10 thousand yeats is crazy

[@edgeeffect]

Yeah... we need some genome mapping here!

[@Terjavez]

I wonder if this channel ever attached the subject of the blue iguana

[@lucianonahuelmansilla4266]

"they were gone forever...or were they?" *Vsauce music starts playing*

[@Mumbamumba]

You should try a Rollladen for sleeping. It's divine.

[@BankruptGreek]

the remaster everyone wanted

[@Sciborg9]

It seems rails just really want to become raptors again.

[@JaekSean]

What if some of them were just holding their breath until the island came back?

[@brookeallan2677]

"Only native flightless bird living on an island in the indian ocean" - me in Australia fighting off emus daily......

[@lydiathedragon9554]

Question: do the rail birds eat the crabs? Or are they pecking at the crabs because they are annoyed?

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I was wondering the same thing. The crabs look too big for the rails to eat, though.

[@alonsogabriel9336]

I wonder if its possible to recreate a dodo bird if we force a similar species to go reiterative evolution

[@abominablesnowman876]

some evolve to become crabs and some become... barnacles. yeah, they are the same freaking family

[@TestUser-cf4wj]

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.

[@KBRoller]

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!

[@cinemaipswich4636]

It is good to see you back Hank. You are a prime educator who is much loved. Thank you.

[@tobyihli9470]

That’s pretty incredible, don’t you think? No, really, that’s fascinating. Did both eventual, and similar iterations begin with the same original bird species?

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Might be interesting to check the mainland population of white-throated rails, and see if there's a low but non-zero incidence of chicks being hatched among them that lack the capacity for flight. Off the atoll where predators are prevalent, such a trait would rate as a genetic flaw that incurs a fatal disability, but on the atoll it's a harmless energy-saver.

[@TheTheiceking]

love the background, ill get that too one day ha

[@NewMessage]

Man, life isn't hard enough the firs time 'round?

[@NinaDmytraczenko]

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

[@Zebulization]

I feel sorry for the larger crabs, it looks like death by a thousand cuts. I am not sure that the crab would be able to kill the bird any faster. I assume the occasional bird misjudges the strength or speed of a crab and gets clamped.

[@seese9456]

Iterative evolution is kind of amazing because it shows how strong selective pressures and strict niches can generate the "same" species multiple times.

[@Hughjaoses8766]

Sey sells Seychelles down by the Seychelles? No thats not it

[@c7iC]

No crab is inevitable

[@t.c.2776]

Dragsters are called "rails"... You can "rail" at someone in anger... you can have a Stair rail... you can have a chair rail... and of course a train rail... I'm sure there are many others I don't know of... 🤔

[@maciejrejowski4682]

So that's what happens when your spawn point gets obstructed.

[@grandgojira5485]

Eistein's definition of insanity is attempting the same wrong answer repeatedly with no adjustment after it fails.

[@alwillcox]

4:50 Who else heard "that we know of" in Lindsay's voice?

[@pressb]

Unaddressed question, can the flightless Aldabran rails still mate successfully with the Madagascan root stock? are they separate species or sub-spieces? if the flightlessness evolved in 16,000 years from the same root stock and they can still successfully breed with their root stock it is conceivable that the pre-flood sub-species could breed successfully with their post flood cousins.

[@honeylocustlavenderfarm]

I believe it would be more likely that these flightless rails evolved and probably crossbred with flighted rails, who took the genetics away from that area for a time, and then once reintroduced those genetics remain predominant. Meaning that the rail never d evolved or re. Evolved. But simply the genetics, we're already transfixed in its genome

[@mr.pringle8466]

Why isn't just that the same environment prompted the same results.? An environment so rich with food, crabs and bugs and absent of predators, they evolved as the product of that same environment.

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

I thought Dodos were pigeons .

[@Semperdendron]

Yep. Me too. And according to wikipedia as well.

[@BonaparteBardithion]

He called them "flightless birds". I think people are just interpreting the video as saying they're related to rails because the immediate follow-up example is another rail species.