Moa extinction: Human colonization sealed fate of New Zealand's giants, study shows
New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...
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Extinct moa ate purple trufflelike fungi, fossil bird droppings reveal
DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.
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Why North Sentinel Island Is One Of Earth’s Last Great Mysteries—Officially Off-Limits Since 1956
North Sentinel Island remains one of Earth's last true time capsules—its people living as their ... [+] ancestors did for millennia, untouched by modern civilization. And since 1956, the Indian ...
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Weather: Heavy thunderstorms hit central North Island, Taupō cops surface flooding and power outages
Flooding and power outages have been reported in Taupō this evening as heavy thunderstorms strike the central North Island. MetService earlier issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the central ...
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Meet the Gentle Giant: Mastering some of North America's Hardest Climbing Routes in the 1960’s
Meet, Don Vockeroth, Rossland, British Columbia based, gentle giant of kindness ... Some of the hardest routes in North America at the time: Big mix climbs, with crazy exposure were his favourites ...
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Giant truck convoys on North Wales beach like living in 'war zone'
Join the North Wales Live Whatsapp community now Writing online, one man fumed: “The noise nuisance of the trucks is already becoming intolerable. It’s like a war zone here with all the ...
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The incredible tribe that has lived at sea off a giant island for the last 1,000 years
The Bajau Laut (also known as Sea Gypsies) are nomadic seafaring people who traditionally live on boats and stilt houses in the waters around giant island Malaysian Borneo, Sabah, the Philippines ...
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Mount Kaputar pink slug: The giant hot-pink mollusk found only on a single, extinct volcano
Although Kaputar is surrounded by dry plains, occasional rain and snow over the mountain create a "sky island" — an isolated highland environment with unique flora and fauna. Related ...
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The Island
Dr. Krishnamoorthy Subramanian, Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), paid a courtesy visit on the Prime Minister, Dr.... The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has announced that ...