The Unusual Creatures From New Zealand's Ancient Lands

New Zealand's isolated landscapes are home to weird and wonderful wildlife. With unusual animals roaming the lands, from flightless birds, giant bugs and ancient reptiles, but where did these peculiar creatures come from? To understand the origins of the animals today, we travel back through time to Primeval New Zealand; a time when the island was isolated for millions of years after separating from Gondwana. For the first time science is revealing the true story about where our wildlife icons came from, and the reasons for their unique evolution.
Primeval New Zealand (2012)
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[@FlowerofDissolution]

Amazing documentary! Really enjoyed this one! :D

[@geoffreywitte3784]

Magnificent work

[@mikamoney371]

Awesome documentary!!👏

[@DS.proudkiwi]

Grew up on a bird sanctuary island in coromandal . We had kiwi nesting under our house and penguins under the woolshed . Love this country of ours

[@braxm2781]

Wtf I’m so jealous of you rn 🔥

[@DS.proudkiwi]

@@braxm2781 so awesome as a kid even like swimming with wild dolphins , white water rafting, fishing, hunting, got to do so many awesome things . I know we don't have things like bears and fox's and things in NZ but it's cool listening to all our different birds....we got probably one of the coolest little owls called a morepork be cause at night instead of going hoot, hoot it goes morepork, morepork I got one living outside my camper I listen to at night

[@dianaholvik2554]

Wow.

[@Dawn_Aramoana63]

Great documentary. Thank you.

[@MannyEspinola-q4t]

Thank you for this video

[@dianaholvik2554]

Great documentary. Many decades ago I went to Canada from NZ, bypassing Aussie land completely (I've never visited there, tho I'd love to). I was an adolescent back then and so I have many great memories of NZ. And I was terrified of wetas as a kid. Thanks for this wonderful Documentary.

[@dawnezone8491]

Beautiful Aotearoa NZ ♥♥♥ Not confronting at all, very interesting :)

[@giannidcenzo]

Well done.

[@Trag-zj2yo]

It was great learning more about your wonderful country.

[@richardscanlan3419]

Wetas are cool,and so is the tuatara.Problem is,for the weta,they are a favorite part of the Tuatara's diet.

[@potechhd]

nice view

[@tristanwilliams4180]

The Kiwi is the Last Relative to the Moa as well

[@kaleb3601]

While they’re both ratites, the closest relative of the moa is thought to be the South American tinamous. And the kiwis closest relative being the Madagascar elephant bird. So neither are actually related to each other. So being said they most likely both were once flying birds that with NZ’s extreme isolation from predators and the outside world in general lead them to both evolve to become birds that could fill the void that mammalian animals left - as did most birds in NZ.

[@nukasnook1561]

The only time the weta is nightmarish is when it crawls into your jeans at night and you put them on.

[@ralphwiggum3463]

i feel like the jokes about the birds originating in Australia is dumb, like yeah, if you go back far enough in the timeline for life they all start meeting in the same spots. that doesn't mean the Kiwi bird is anything Australian.

[@rljpdx]

The Kia IS smart. Let the other guy do all the work for free profit... lolol

[@mohanchandra9001]

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[@0786RICARDO]

It's the size of a chicken....hmmm..

[@RootlessNZ]

The most unusual creature in New Zealand has got to be of the the human variety. They call themselves Kiwis after a flightless, nocturnal bird that nobody has ever seen in the wild because it lives in the most remote inaccessible places that you'd have to be insane, or a conservationist, or both, to want to visit.

[@nukasnook1561]

I have a kiwi in my garden. We live on the fringes of a wildlife corridor. He's a youngish male. Will probably move on though.

[@ziggyschumann5284]

What a joke ! As if they knew what the world was like 20 million yrs. ago. 😅🤣😂

[@chazlewis9814]

Not too bright are you?

[@ziggyschumann5284]

@@chazlewis9814 The ancient Vedic texts explain everything about this universe, how it was created, it's layers and the 8,400,000 species in it.. They are a treasure trove of material and spiritual knowledge. Unfortunately, most people, including yourself, don't study them and would rather believe fairy tales. Myabe you're the one that's not too bright..

[@Dawn_Aramoana63]

Narrow minds comment the same. Can't see past their own arrogance.

[@Dawn_Aramoana63]

​@@chazlewis9814your comment is 💯 👍

[@theoteddy9665]

​@@ziggyschumann5284you really are dumb😂😂😂

[@CarlosGarcia-wh5bw]

The power of arabic the best richest and beautiful language

[@DS.proudkiwi]

Nothing beautiful about anything Arabic

[@rosannesutton4310]

​@@DS.proudkiwi😂😂😂

[@danielfox9461]

I guess no one explained to them ka-ka means shit in Spanish

[@JonnyDredd]

kaka means parrot in maori

[@rosannesutton4310]

Well this documentary isn't about Spain...is it.

[@nukasnook1561]

Yeah relevant... not one iota.