Alan Cooper, Cécile Mourer Chauviré, Geoffrey Chambers, Arndt von Haeseler, Allan Wilson and Svante Pääbo investigated the evolutionary relationship among some extinct and living species of flightless birds. They used tissue samples from museums and from living birds. This is an example of discovery-based science.

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This is an example of discovery-based science because the researchers are gathering and analyzing data (tissue samples) without a prior hypothesis, aiming to uncover new information about the evolutionary relationships among species.

Alan Cooper, Cécile Mourer Chauviré, Geoffrey Chambers, Arndt Von Haeseler