What do you get when you cross an blue jay with a green jay?

The answer, it seems, is a new bird hybrid that has been discovered in Texas, as reported by the University of Texas at Austin.

Biologists with the university have reported the discovery of a bird that is the “natural result of a green jay and a blue jay’s mating.”

“The two different parent species are separated by 7 million years of evolution, and their ranges didn’t overlap as recently as a few decades ago,” reads the announcement on the University of Texas at Austin’s website.

Hybrid offspring between species has been known to occur in the wild, but the researchers studying this newfound bird hybrid suggest that “it may be among the first examples of a hybrid animal that exists because of recent changing patterns in the c

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