A study unearths and compares parrot diversity in the Caribbean before and after human arrival on the islands.
). This cave-rail’s extinction reminds us that being plump and flightless is a bad survival strategy for birds after human settlers arrive on your island.Laura C. Gooch via a Creative Commons licensespecies from which they were able to obtain usable ancient DNA samples.
Most of the fossil fragments examined in this study that were unearthed outside of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico were originally thought to be from Cuban parrots. But the ancient DNA data revealed a surprise: fossils from paleontological sites throughout the Bahamas were actually from Hispaniolan parrots, indicating this species had a much larger range throughout the Bahamas before humans arrived.
“We’re learning about diversity we didn’t even know existed until we took a closer look at museum specimens,” Dr LeFebvre said.... [+]
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