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    • Giant Haast's eagle attacking New Zealand moa painting
    Rights: John Megahan, CC Attribution 2.5 Generic Published 3 November 2009 Size: 330 KB Referencing Hub media

    This giant Haast’s eagle used to prey on moa. When the numbers of moa decreased, this huge predator died out forever.

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      Extinction

      The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ranks a species as extinct when there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. This might sound like a simple ...

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