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Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand

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A New Zealand cave yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem 1 million years old, including a possible flying ancestor of the kākāpō, revealing how volcanoes and climate reshaped the country's wildlife and drove extinctions before human arrival.

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