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Take THAT, Australia...
#1
Take THAT, Australia...
they'll be dancing in the streets in Auckland!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...141317.htm

Quote:Australia can no longer lay claim to the origins of the iconic New Zealand kiwi following new research showing the kiwi’s closest relative is not the emu as was previously thought. Instead, the diminutive kiwi is most closely related to the extinct Madagascan elephant bird -- a 2-3 meter tall, 275 kg giant. And surprisingly, the study concluded, both of these flightless birds once flew.
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#2
RE: Take THAT, Australia...
And clearly, it got it from Madagascar to Australia via the continental land bridges. NOAH'S FLOOD CONFIRMED!
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#3
RE: Take THAT, Australia...
Thought I was going to see Garry Barlow riding a kangaroo when I read this title. I am disappoint.
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#4
RE: Take THAT, Australia...
Quote:they'll be dancing in the streets in Auckland!

Too right, but it's got bugger all to do with kiwi origins. EnZeds dance in the streets; 1) When the All Blacks win; 2) When the All Blacks fail to lose; and 3) When the day happens to end with the letter 'y'.

Boru
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#5
RE: Take THAT, Australia...
Na, you can keep that ugly bird, we don't need it here.
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RE: Take THAT, Australia...
(May 23, 2014 at 5:47 pm)psychoslice Wrote: Na, you can keep that ugly bird, we don't need it here.

Blasphemy! Blasphemy! You'll smoke kiwi droppings in Hell for that!!

Boru
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#7
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Sheet; I am an Aussie, and I didn't know that we had made such a claim. I can't see that any of us would give a damn anyway.
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RE: Take THAT, Australia...
(May 23, 2014 at 1:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: they'll be dancing in the streets in Auckland!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...141317.htm

Quote:Australia can no longer lay claim to the origins of the iconic New Zealand kiwi following new research showing the kiwi’s closest relative is not the emu as was previously thought. Instead, the diminutive kiwi is most closely related to the extinct Madagascan elephant bird -- a 2-3 meter tall, 275 kg giant. And surprisingly, the study concluded, both of these flightless birds once flew.

Oh no, the shame of it all.

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RE: Take THAT, Australia...
(May 24, 2014 at 2:27 am)Zen Badger Wrote:
(May 23, 2014 at 1:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: they'll be dancing in the streets in Auckland!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...141317.htm

Oh no, the shame of it all.

We'll never be able to show our faces in the UN again. Undecided

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