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Article about yellow-eyed penguins.

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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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All plants have to have a method of dispersing seeds, but these are experts with mini explosive devices that have been primed to wait for action until the time is right.

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These fabulously coloured volcanic lakes on the north island of New Zealand, give one of the most amazing natural art exhibitions in the world.

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Some animals frighten off predators with coloring that makes them look much bigger. Foe example, peacock butterflies have big eye spots on their wings.

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They are the deadly attraction. But they are eye-catching butterfly.

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It was once the world’s largest and greatest flightless bird until its extinction somewhere around the 1500s when it was believed to have been hunted to death by New Zealand’s native population, the Maori. So what made New Zealand’s Moa so special?

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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.

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Kereru is the native pigeon of New Zealand and is unlike other pigeons in its coloring and size. It is the only bird capable of eating the largest native fruits and drupes, making it ecologically important for conservation.

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The Giant and the Colossal Squid are the most unknown, unseen and most terrifying creatures this planet has to offer. Denizens of the deep, they ply every ocean of the world, moving silently and in mystery. Sometimes, they come into contact with man. Either incidentally in the form of the stomach contents of whales taken in the hunt, or as sailor’s witness, relegated to near myth. More recently however, there have been actual live first contact and the truth is far more interesting than the fantasy…