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"In 2001, a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society identified a pair of bird siblings as unlikely as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito: the flamingo's closest relative was a little diving bird called a grebe. "That was probably the single most astounding result that anybody's ever gotten," Peter Houde, an avian biologist from New Mexico State University, told me. "

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-bizarre-bird-thats-breaking-the-tree-of-life


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