[ExI] Death follows European contact (Mirco Romanato)

[Kelly Anderson]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Andrew Mckee <andymck35 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 05:14:40 +1200, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Another myth is that the native Americans lived in ecological harmony with
>> the land, but just a few thousand years ago the megafauna in the Americas
>> was more spectacular than even what could be found in Africa, but it all
>> vanished almost immediately when humans moved in for the first time. The
>> native Australians and New Zealanders did the same thing with their
>> megafauna.
>>
>
>
> Bzzzttt!, there was never any mega-fauna on the New Zealand islands to
> begin with, it's geologically too young to have developed any.
>

Sorry. Bzzzttt back at ya!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa

-Kelly
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