baking, sun, thorny, kiawe, trees, kapolei, hide, relics, from, time, when, ewa, plain, was, forest, alive, with, strange, birds, now, long, extinct, in, those, years, before, arrival, humans, moa, nalo, lumbered, through, it, three-foot-tall, flightless, goose-like, duck, largest, native, hawaiian, shown, artist, s, conception, painting, by, julian, pender, hume, had, company, rails, geese, waddled, around, overhead, flew, sea, eagle, owls, crows, hawk, bats, finches, other, perching, flitted, among, most, these, have, been, hundreds, proof, existence, lies, bottom, limestone, sinkholes, where, they, sometimes, were, trapped, died, leaving, bones, beaks, behind, skull, this, crow, known, to, science, as, corvus, impluviatus, found, one, ancient, reef, that, makes, up, anne, wiley, michigan, state, university, graduate, student, left, andreanna, welch, maryland, look, larger, site, yesterday, are, vertical, caves, grew, during, period, ago, levels, much, higher, once, thousands, across, traps, preserved, evidence, hawaii, prehistory, already, filled, covered, development, property, which, proposing, acre, light, industrial, park, plans, preserve, six-acre, piece, undisturbed, land, contains, several, maria, duffy, examines, bone, wet, cave, sinkhole, wife, dr, david, professor, botany, ecology, evolution, conservation, biology, helen, james, smithsonian, national, museum, natural, history, holds, upper, bill