A bird thought to have evolved away from being flightless thousands of years ago is once again unable to fly, researchers have discovered.
The Natural History Museum in the UK has found the last surviving native flightless rail on Aldabra in the Seychelles, 390 miles east of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean. The research team led by paleontologist Julian Hume discovered the descendant of the flying white-throated rail had lost its ability to fly twice across a 16,000-year period.
