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The Longest-Living Bird on Earth & Why It Can't Fly | Modern Dinosaurs

For 60 million years, the isolated islands of New Zealand were a unique evolutionary laboratory, giving rise to extraordinary animals like the Kakapo. This documentary tells the true story of the world's strangest parrot—the only flightless, heaviest, and longest-living bird species, capable of living up to 100 years. Learn how the owl parrot successfully evolved ground-based living because it had no natural predators, and how that unique evolution became a critical weakness when humans arrived. The introduction of deadly mammalian predators like stoats nearly wiped out this living theropod dinosaur. Today, with fewer than 160 individuals remaining, this species faces a desperate battle against extinction. Witness the cutting-edge genetic rescue efforts conservationists are using to sequence the genome of every single bird in a race against inbreeding and time to save one of the most critically endangered animals on Earth. #prehistoric #kakapo #parrot