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The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand
The Lost World of the Moa Prehistoric Life of New Zealand Author:Richard N. Holdaway, Trevor Worthy "A landmark work, a book that paleontologists, ornithologists, biogeographers, and ecologists alike will use as a resource for some time to come." James O. Farlow THE LOST WORLD OF THE MOA investigates one of the richest and most unusual faunas in the world, one that thrived in isolation for 80 million years, but that over the past 2000 years... more » has been reduced to a shadow of its former glory. It was a fauna dominated by birds. In one of the most dramatic extinctions of modern times, half of these species were removed from the planet forever.« less