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Anthropology

eppur_se_muova

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2. Three decades ago ?!? And we're just now learning about it ??

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2020, 07:51 PM

Jul 2020

I always thought reviving giant birds would be more interesting than reviving mammoths. And even unbroken eggs turn up from time to time. Moas and elephant birds both went extinct relatively recently, because of human predation and habitat loss.

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Archaeologists Find 3,300-Year-Old Claw Of A Bird That Went Extinct 700 Years Ago ... [View all] left-of-center2012 Jul 2020 OP

Amazing that it is so well preserved! MoonchildCA Jul 2020 #1

Three decades ago ?!? And we're just now learning about it ?? eppur_se_muova Jul 2020 #2