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'Grue Jay' Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is First-of-Its-Kind Hybrid


An odd bird found in a Texas backyard is the offspring of two distantly related species, separated by 7 million years of evolution, whose ranges only recently began to overlap due to climate change, researchers report in a new study.

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