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Ancient Shelducks Colonized Chatham Islands 390,000 Years Ago

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Ancient Shelducks Colonized Chatham Islands 390,000 Years Ago
An artistic reconstruction of a female Rēkohu shelduck (Tadorna rekohu) showing the darker plumage common in birds isolated on islands. Image credit: Sasha Votyakova / Te Papa.

A team of paleontologists from New Zealand and Australia has described a new extinct shelduck species from Holocene fossil bone deposits on the Rēkohu Chatham Islands.

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