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I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, New Zealand is one of the Earth's newest land masses. Its geologic history is incredibly dynamic. New Zealand close to its modern form

rose up from the waves around 20 million years ago. Compare that with Australia

where you can find rocks that are 3.8 billion years old.

But though today's New Zealand came to be around 20 million years ago, its geological history

spans back a bit farther.

83 million years ago, the Zealandia continent was about half as big as Australia.

And as it moved away from Australia, it sank beneath sea level, and around 25 million years ago, it was mostly

submerged.

Then, 20 million years ago, relatively recent in Earth's geological history, the two tectonic plates that modern day New Zealand rests

atop began to have friction and New Zealand began to rise once again above the ocean's surface.

Just five million years ago, the North and South Island separated.

What kind of animals lived on some of the Earth's freshest land?

Well, New Zealand's isolation and recent rise above water meant that most creatures wouldn't be able to get there.

Land mammals would be unable to swim the distance from Australia.

Snakes couldn't make the oceanic journey. Australian insects

wouldn't have made the journey either, but birds. Birds could make the flight.

And over time New Zealand became an aviary haven, full of all sorts of birds.

Without large mammal predators, many of the birds evolved over time and became extremely large and flightless.

At least 730 years ago, and maybe even earlier, the first humans arrived by boat.

They came from Polynesia and built a society into a thriving

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