Weighing less than a golf ball and merely six inches in length, the Inaccessible Island rail is the world's smallest ...

The origin of the world’s smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution , 2019; 130: 92 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev ...

image: The Inaccessible Island Rail, known now as Atlantisia rogersi, needs a name change after researchers linked the tiny bird to a species in South America.

The Inaccessible Island Rail, known now as Atlantisia rogersi, needs a name change after researchers linked the tiny bird to a species in South America. The researchers believe the bird made its ...

It was in 1923 when British physician Percy Lowe of the British Museum first described the Inaccessible Island rail and gave it a separate Atlantisia genus, after the mythical island of Atlantis.

From Exotic Bird Series (A. 111) - Offset lithograph and screenprint in colors on Arches 88 mould-made paper - Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York -- "Inaccessible Island Rail, ...

That’s where Inaccessible Island, a tiny, uninhabited island in the South Atlantic Ocean, comes in. Halfway between Africa and South America, it’s many many miles from anything.

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