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Outside the truly ancient islands that are fragments of sunken continents; New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and the like, the Islands of the Pacific are, geologically, ephemeral things. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror!

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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