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Fantastic_Futures_2025-241

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  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • rebfoto said:
    👍
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 23, 2026
  • Michael Gschwind said:
    Glückwunsch zu Explore !
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • Francesco Dini said:
    Congrats on making Explore! 🎉✨ 👏 - Very impressive! 🌟

British Library digitised image from page 6 of "Te Ika a Maui, or, New Zealand and its Inhabitants ... Second edition, etc"

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  • Robyn Gallagher said:
    This superb image needs to be rotated.
  • Vernon Fridy said:
    A landscape of pre-European New Zealand, featuring a suite of native plants, flightless birds, and a human (Māori) hunter.
    This is not paleoart; the larger moa species likely only became extinct sometime in the 15th century.

LIVING__WITH_MACHINES_DEC2022 35

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  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 15, 2024
  • gato-gato-gato said:
    well seen
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • Ian Betley said:
    Congrats on Explore! ❤📷❤ great image! regards.

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