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| Subject: | Imagine laying this egg |
| From: | L&L Knight <> |
| Date: | Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:25:57 +1000 |
The claims of antique dealers selling merchandise should always be
taken with a lump of salt.
On 26/03/2009, at 7:47 PM, Tom and Mandy Wilson wrote: Interesting, but not sure the beeb got this bit right - "...Mr Shepherd, a trained palaeontologist, said: "The egg has a great social history. The Madagascan Elephant Bird was the only giant bird to exist with man and man caused its extinction....The herbivores, which were hunted by the natives of Madagascar, became extinct in the mid-1600s."I thought that the Maori caused the extinction of Moas in New Zealand? Cheers Tom Wilson |
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