New Zealand native birds mammal predators flightlessness extinctions

Some New Zealand birds evolved without flight

With few mammalian predators, some native New Zealand birds evolved without the ability to fly. After people arrived, habitat changes and introduced mammals contributed to many bird extinctions, including the moa and Haast’s eagle.

Britain’s cable cuts left Germany using wireless

When Britain entered World War I, it cut five undersea cables linking Germany with France, Spain, and the Azores, with connections onward to North America. Germany was left communicating by wireless, allowing Room 40 to listen in.

A workers’ pidgin became Hawaiʻi Creole English

On Hawaiʻi’s sugarcane plantations, workers from different backgrounds used an English-based pidgin to communicate. By the early 20th century, their children were learning it as a first language, and it became a fully developed creole.

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New Zealand native birds mammal predators flightlessness extinctions

Some New Zealand birds evolved without flight

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