If you could go back in time to try to save the Moa, Haast’s eagle, Megalania or any of the other megafauna from extinction, how would you do it? Would you actually even want to?

YES obviously I would, because do you even know how disappointing it is to have to explain to Americans that New Zealand used to have giant eagles just like in Lord of the Rings but they’ve been extinct for hundreds of years?  There was, like, an article in the news a while back, here it is http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11360081 because one of our politicians made an offhand remark about “the moa being a goer” or something, and everyone laughed at him because no one is used to the idea of this actually being possible, but maybe in ten or twenty years or so it really will be?  Anyway I love this article because its assessment of Haast’s Eagle is “not an ideal candidate, as its prey was large bipedal ground-dwelling animals.”  Which is obviously chickening out.  Pffffft.

I don’t know how I’d do it; you’re the one with the time machine or whatever; that’s your job.

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