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Believe it or not, the headline is not an exaggeration – scientists have recently determined that a recently extinct species of eagle found in New Zealand only a short few hundred years ago could well have feasted on the occasional human child.

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One of the least known birds of prey and one of the greatest hunters New Zealand had ever seen. The Haast Eagle was New Zealand’s version of Africa’s lion or Asia’s tiger, hunting with intense and precise vigour mostly for another pre homo-sapien New Zealand phenom, a large flightless bird named the Moa.