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New Zealand's moa were exterminated by an extremely low-density human population
EurekAlert (press release) Their total extinction most probably occurred within a decade either side of 1425 CE, barely a century after the earliest well-dated site, at Wairau Bar near Blenheim, was settled by people from tropical East Polynesia. The last known birds lived in … |
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