posted by
sbisson at 02:02pm on 04/01/2005
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Following up my recent entry on the extinct Haast Eagle, the largest predator in New Zealand, I noted this BBC News article, which discusses recent research into its DNA. It turns out that the Haast Eagle, one of the largest flying birds ever, was directly related to one of the world's smallest - a whole order of magnitude smaller...
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...divided by a common language
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Bringing back something the mass of a capital "E" Eagle is out of the question, even if you could persuade one of them to come.
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(it works the other way around too, the dwarf elephants of the Mediterranean islands got small very quickly after the rising waters cut them off from their parent populations in Afro-Eurasia)
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No Moa
In all of Aotearoa.
Can’t get ‘em
They’ve eat ‘em
No Moa in Aotearoa.
I think we need some verses for the Haast Eagle as well...
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