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DSC_2021 Stirton's False-toothed pelican (Neodontornis stirtoni) 3 million year old fossils from the middle Pliocene, found in Tangahoe mudstone near Hawera, would make this the most recently surviving member of a now extinct family. This beautiful reconstruction is by the sculptor Gary Bell. Taranaki *
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