Hybrid Bird Species of Pará, Brazil Linked with Species’ Interbreeding

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A mysterious case of species origin was finally solved through DNA and feather analyses by Brazilian and Canadian scientists, revealing the dançador-de-coroa-dourada (Golden Crown Dancer), or the Lepidothrix vilasboasi, to be a hybrid species resulting from the interbreeding of two separate species over 150 thousand years ago.

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