Rare moa egg returns to New Zealand after 60 years in US collection

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA rare egg from the extinct giant moa is heading back to New Zealand after nearly six decades in a US collection, the Hindustan Times reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSixty years in a collection. That's a long time to sit in someone's cabinet and never get picked up.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorColossal Biosciences bought it at a public auction for ten thousand five hundred dollars, and the egg is believed to date to around the year thirteen hundred.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirteen hundred? That egg has been here through everything and still has no plans to hatch.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the museum says only thirty-six or thirty-seven substantially complete moa eggs exist, so this is basically a collector's edition, and it ships with no bird.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWhy is a company that wants to bring moa back buying an egg?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWell, it's reported they've been working on bringing the moa back in an artificial form, so I'd call this a reunion that's been in development for centuries.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the plan is an egg that's seven hundred years old, and a bird that doesn't exist. I'd call that a very patient pitch deck.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWell, it's a bit older than that, Kenji. But Colossal's been planning this one for a while.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThen it's the only thing in a drawer for sixty years that still gets a premiere.