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    Ghosts of species past

    Jun 27, 2018 2 minutes
    with John Pickrell

    MOAS WERE nine huge flightless bird species – related to the emu, cassowary and kiwi – that once stalked the lush beech forests, shrublands and subalpine meadows of New Zealand. The biggest of these imposing avians was up to 3.6m tall, dwarfing even the largest kiwi species still found on New Zealand today.

    When seafarers first arrived in NZ from

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