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  • The moa-nalo, giant Hawaiian geese, Auckland and Chatham Islands mergansers and various other species come to mind.

    The Madagascar pochard returns Darren Naish 2006

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  • "The moa-nalo (the name literally means "lost fowl"; an "s" is not added for the plural) were unknown to science, having been wiped out before the arrival of Captain James Cook (1778), until the early 1980s, when their subfossil remains were discovered in sand dunes on the islands of Molokaʻi and Kauaʻi. Subsequently bones were found on Maui, Oʻahu, and L�?naʻi, in lava tubes, lake beds and sinkholes." (Wikipedia)

    April 24, 2009