mardi 26 décembre 2017

Rare Amazon bird species arose from ancient interspecies sex

Open-crowned manakin snow-capped manakin

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a couple of birds with exotic tastes had an interspecies tryst. Now, a Canadian-led team of scientists has confirmed their descendants are a new species that arose from the hybridization of two separate parent species — a rare occurrence.



from CBC | Express Offbeat News http://ift.tt/2C8MpyU

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