Inaccessible Island Rail

The appropriately titled Inaccessible Island is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, midway between the enormous continents of Africa and South America. Even though the bird truly has no reason to be there, Atlantisia rogersi, a subspecies of rails native to the island, calls it home.

Biologists have been baffled as to how this particular rail ended up on an island as remote as Inaccessible Island ever since it was first discovered in the late 1800s, despite the fact that rails are known to be a diverse, widely dispersed bird species found on every known continent (aside from Antarctica).It may have entered through Atlantis before it was purportedly submerged, according to one well-liked hypothesis, which is how it got its name.

It continued up until November 2018, when a study carried out by experts from Sweden's Lund University put the issue to rest. The DNA of the birds was examined using cutting-edge sequencing techniques, and the origins of the species were discovered to be 1.5 million years ago in South America.