• @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    The OP states it was part of Gondwana, maybe that’s what makes it different.

    If you click through to the microcontinent link that seems to support the idea of microcontinents being pieces broken off a bigger one. But with everything coming from Gondwana then that means all the existing ones are fragments, and the only reason other fragments aren’t considered continents is size (e.g. Madigascar).

    Zealandia seems to be the Pluto of continents. Too small to be a continent but much larger than the largest microcontinent.

        • Flying Squid
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          4 months ago

          Nope, they’re all around you and me and everyone else. They just evolved into things that (usually) have wings. In terms of phylogeny, they’re dinosaurs.

          • @[email protected]
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            44 months ago

            Well, maybe in theory. NZ has many unique birds not found anywhere else, but they are generally threatened or endangered. If you want to see them in the wild, generally you have to go to a very specific location.

            If I look outside, almost certainly all I’ll see are European dinosaurs.

            So maybe I should correct my statement to say they almost all died out.

        • CRUMBGRABBER
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          34 months ago

          I hereby promise to give you back your dinosaurs, starting with a clone of the T-Rex.