Scientists just debunked a 50-year myth about Hawaii’s birds

ScienceDaily
Apr 14, 2026, 9:31 am127 ptsTrending
A new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is overturning a decades-old belief that Indigenous Hawaiians hunted native waterbirds to extinction. Instead, researchers found no scientific evidence supporting this claim and propose a more complex explanation involving climate change, invasive species,…

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