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Maori Legend of Man-Eating Birds is True

Posted by samzenpus on from the beautiful-plumage dept.

jerryatrix writes "Legends of the New Zealand Maori tell of giant man-eating birds. New scientific evidence proves that these birds did exist and were around the same time as humans in New Zealand. From the article, 'Scientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast's eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago.'"

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  1. Re:Cool, but can we clone it? by grcumb · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It became extinct fairly recently, why don't we clone it? Surely these things will make a great addition to the New Zealand Air Defense Force.

    Well, it would at least mean that New Zealand would have an Air Defence Force...

    (I'm Canadian. I'm allowed to make these jokes.)

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