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    N.Z's isolated position on Earth
    Several kinds of Kiwi - a flightless bird that lives in burrows.Female MoaMoa and skeletal relatives. The female Moa was twice as large as the male Moa (left skeleton)

    Auckland War Memorial Museum

    December 24, 2023 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    The fauna of New Zealand. NZ broke away from Gondwana Land about 100 million years ago and drifted far away from what is now Australia and South America. It had no known mammals but many birds that are/were not found anywhere else. The Moa, a large flightless bird, was hunted to extinction. The Kiwi has survived. There is a wide variety of seabirds and several endangered parrots that still survive. No snakes in NZ!Read more