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Re: New Zealand's Giant Eagle Showed Rapid Size Gain

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Subject: Re: New Zealand's Giant Eagle Showed Rapid Size Gain
From: Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:13:14 -0600
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John Bois wrote:

Is that the giant chicken?

Do you mean the giant putative megapode _Sylviornis neocaledoniae_. There was a relative on Fiji, _Megavitiornis altirostris_, also very large and also very extinct. The latter's jaws were a lot like those of the unrelated _Diatryma_.

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