by Clare
Scott | Dec 2, 2015 |
The
extinction of a species is a heartbreaking thought, especially when you
consider that some of our most beloved species, like monarch butterflies, frogs
and toads, and bats are threatened, by disease or climate change, to the point
that they may not be around for our grandchildren to see. Someday, they may
only exist in museums, as remote to humans as moa and adzebills.
Say
what now? Yes, moa and adzebills existed once, but the flightless birds have
been extinct for thousands of years. You may never have heard of them (I
certainly hadn’t) but a collaboration between scientists at Massey University, the Auckland War Memorial Museum and
the Museum of New
Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is bringing them back to life. Okay, not
literally bringing them back to life – stop your Jurassic Park fantasies – but
thanks to 3D scanning, the birds, along with several other of New Zealand’s
extinct bird species, are being made more real than they have been for a long
time.
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