From the Vault: Rise of the Moa
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Moa of New Zealand were among the weirdest birds to ever live, and their history is full of evolutionary wonder, interspecies conflict, tragedy and scientific hope. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe discuss the rise and fall of the great Moa. (Originally published 3/24/2020)
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| 0:36.3 | Hey, welcome to Stuffed Up Below Your Mind. |
| 0:38.1 | My name is Robert Lam. |
| 0:39.8 | And I'm Jim McCormick, and it's Saturday, time to go into the vault for a classic episode |
| 0:43.7 | of the show. |
| 0:44.7 | This one is about the Moa of New Zealand, one of your great loves of the past year. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, this one was really fun topic to get into. |
| 0:54.8 | This is going to be a two-parter. |
| 0:57.5 | I will point out that we didn't, one thing we didn't really get into these episodes |
| 1:01.3 | were changes in our understanding of the sort of the stature of the Moa, exactly how it stood |
| 1:06.3 | and how tall it would actually be. |
| 1:09.0 | We ended up addressing that, I think, in a subsequent list or mail episode. |
| 1:12.7 | But I think everything still holds up. |
| 1:16.1 | I don't think any Moa experts or Moa's had any other corrections other than to point out |
| 1:23.0 | that we didn't really touch on that particular issue in these initial two episodes. |
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