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Though the common ancestor of all modern birds could fly, many different bird species have independently lost their flight.
When a bird species doesn’t face specific pressures to fly, it can stop flying in as quickly as a few generations.
Most often, flightlessness evolves after a bird species flies to an island where there are no predators.
In New Zealand, stoats introduced by European settlers have threatened many native species of flightless bird.
So in spite of the energy-saving advantages of flightlessness, many flightless bird species have only a short run before going the way of the dodo.
Unlike most small flightless species that come and go quickly, these giants have been flightless for tens of millions of years.
But part of the reason I found this interesting is, I started noticing that we're very aware of all the species that are going extinct on the planet as a result of human habitation expansion, and no one seems to be paying attention to all the species that are actually living; they're surviving.
And I'm talking specifically about synanthropic species, which have adapted specifically for human ecologies, species like rats and cockroaches and crows.
So I thought, let's build something that's mutually beneficial; something that we can both benefit from, and find some way to make a new relationship with these species.
The main point of all this for me is, we can find mutually beneficial systems for these species.
We can find ways to interact with these other species that doesn't involve exterminating them, but involves finding an equilibrium with them that's a useful balance.
So, birds chirping outside your window may indicate normality, perhaps because, as a species, we've been used to that sound every morning for millions of years.
But we are just not there yet as a species.
And by the way, that's happened five times on Earth, and therefore it is very likely that the human species on Earth is going to go extinct someday.
As you're thinking of the consequence of that, if you believe that extinctions are common and natural and normal and occur periodically, it becomes a moral imperative to diversify our species.
We're going to populate the space of all the different possible types, or species, of thinking.
And we all get to go to space on our way to becoming a multi-planetary species.
As both predator and prey, survival of their species depended on crucial instinctual behaviors which we still observe in wild and domestic cats today.
Also, small prey tend to hide in tiny spaces in their natural environments, so one explanation for Grizmo's propensity to reach into containers and openings is that she is compelled by the same curiosity that helped ensure the continuation of her species for millions of years before.
A complete new species.
This is a group of animals that now we know we share extensive genomic ancestry with, and it is perhaps the closest invertebrate species to our own.
What you see here are representatives of all known species in our planet.
And though I don't really want to disparage at all the accomplishments of our species, as much as we wish it to be so and often pretend that it is, we are not the measure of all things.
So, it's not surprising that every week in my field we begin to see the addition of more and more new species to this amazing tree of life.
What is even more tragic is that we know about a bunch of other species of animals out there, but their biology remains sorely under-studied.
Seven species, essentially, that have produced for us the brunt of our understanding of biological behavior today.
And that's because, unfortunately, these seven animals essentially correspond to 0.0009 percent of all of the species that inhabit the planet.
We Homo sapiens are the only species we know of that is driven to scientific inquiry.
We, like all other species on this planet, are inextricably woven into the history of life on this planet.
And I think I'm a little wrong when I say that life is a mystery, because I think that life is actually an open secret that has been beckoning our species for millennia to understand it.
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