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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 26 2017, @04:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the Atticus-Finch dept.

The rise of a new species of finch has been observed on a Galapagos island:

A population of finches on the Galapagos has been discovered in the process of becoming a new species.

This is the first example of speciation that scientists have been able to observe directly in the field.

Researchers followed the entire population of finches on a tiny Galapagos island called Daphne Major, for many years, and so they were able to watch the speciation in progress.

The research was published in the journal Science [DOI: 10.1126/science.aao4593] [DX].

Also at BGR and Phys.org (heavy on comments).


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Bot on Sunday November 26 2017, @09:16AM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday November 26 2017, @09:16AM (#601672) Journal

    "The hybrid even appears to have been some sort of a freak accident"

    > be bird
    > stranded away from home island
    > time passes
    > no hands so can't fap (that's why birds move always in a nervous way, forget about the BS about evading predators)
    > a wild, somewhat familiar, female bird appears!

    freak accident, indeed...

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