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1. Inaccessible Island rail
Endemic to a South Atlantic island with the very on-the-nose name of Inaccessible Island, it’s long been a mystery how this tiny brown bird (just 15.5cm long) arrived there in the first place. Genome sequencing has suggested that its closest-living relative is a flighted bird (the dot-winged crake), meaning that the common ancestor of these two had the ability