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Fancy shelling out £5,000 for a 400-year-old stale egg?
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| 3/26/09
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Posted on 03/27/2009 7:33:58 PM PDT by Flavius
Its mother has long since departed the scene. As, indeed, has its entire species.
But this giant egg is a great survivor. It was laid around 400 years ago by one of the great elephant birds of Madagascar.
Before becoming extinct in the 17th century, the flightless creature was the world's largest bird, standing 10ft tall and weighing half a ton.
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It has a great social history. The Madagascan elephant bird was the only giant bird to exist with man and man caused its extinction.
'It's nice to be able to show children today about environmental issues that have been going on for hundreds of years.'
a concentrated effort
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:33:59 PM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Flavius
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:44:12 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 67 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Flavius
It would be cool if they could do something with the DNA...
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:44:25 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Flavius
That's a lot of turkey and omlettes.
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:45:41 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: Flavius
The Madagascan elephant bird was the only giant bird to exist with man and man caused its extinction.It would have been the bird's job to adapt.
Therefor, it caused its own extinction by failing to do so.
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:46:58 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: marron
"It would be cool if they could do something with the DNA..."Exactly my own first thought! GMTA!
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:48:00 PM PDT
by
redhead
(Don't look at ME! I voted for SARAH!)
To: Flavius
... the only giant bird to exist with man and man caused its extinction.
Thank goodness it wasn't Americans.
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:55:59 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
To: Flavius
The Madagascan elephant bird was the only giant bird to exist with man and man caused its extinction. A debatable point. The moas of New Zealand were even taller, up to 12' tall, although a good deal lighter in weight. They were exterminated by the Maori.
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:56:42 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
To: RobinOfKingston
... the only giant bird to exist with man and man caused its extinction.Unlike the Moa, I guess...
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:57:15 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 67 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Sherman Logan
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posted on
03/27/2009 7:57:56 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 67 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: cripplecreek
What is he doing with that spoon?!
To: Flavius
Fancy shelling out £5,000 for a 400-year-old stale egg? Oh, bird egg. I thought that maybe Helen Thomas was trying in vitro fertilization.
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posted on
03/27/2009 9:54:48 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
To: elkfersupper
I wouldn’t want to be around a bird that had adapted to being shot. Especially one that big.
To: cripplecreek; SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/27/2009 10:58:40 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Ciexyz
Dodo ping.
Ooops. Thought I was on an Obama thread. Sorry
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posted on
03/27/2009 11:10:22 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
To: Ciexyz; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:42:18 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: Flavius
The Madagascan elephant bird was the only giant bird to exist with man and man caused its extinction.
Call me silly but I think a 10 ft. bird was destined for extinction.......regardless of who or what caused its demise. (unless you could build a cage big enough for it and teach it to talk)
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:55:15 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun on an Indy car....)
To: Sherman Logan
Do they have any idea what a kick from a bird weighing 1000 lbs would do to you? I'm sure man coexisted with this bird kind of like man coexists with Lions and Tigers. An Emu can run straight through a barbed wire fence without getting killed and they are only 6’ maybe a couple of hundred pounds.
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posted on
03/28/2009 5:26:14 AM PDT
by
Woodman
("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
To: Woodman
“Do they have any idea what a kick from a bird weighing 1000 lbs would do to you? I’m sure man coexisted with this bird kind of like man coexists with Lions and Tigers. An Emu can run straight through a barbed wire fence without getting killed and they are only 6’ maybe a couple of hundred pounds.”
There was also a New Zealand eagle that survived primarily by hunting the giant birds, now also extinct. That eagle was NOT flightless, and was strong enough to pick up a human and fly away with it.
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posted on
03/28/2009 7:10:15 AM PDT
by
WL-law
To: Woodman
Man coexisted well enough with giant birds to have them all for dinner.
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posted on
03/28/2009 11:34:48 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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