Carl Zimmer at The Loom has a simply must read post on three species of butterflies. Scientists believed that one species might be a hybrid of the other two, so they set out to test it by making the species all over again.
This is really important stuff because it goes against a common argument vs. evolution -- that it cannot be witnessed in action. Experiments like these show that it is plausible and that it occurs on human-relevant time scales.
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