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... that the New Zealand and the Chatham Coot were likely hunted to extinction by the Māori people?
... that Archaeoindris (pictured), a recently extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla?
... that fossils of Eucommia constans are the youngest and most southerly examples of Eucommia in North America?
... that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"?
... that the broad-fronted moose was probably the largest species of deer that has ever existed?