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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

10,000 Birds

Outside the truly ancient islands that are fragments of sunken continents; New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and the like, the Islands of the Pacific are, geologically, ephemeral things. Islands are not places where lineages go to thrive and spawn great new lineages of their own. Image by Greg Hume, CC. What a horror!

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