{"id":5218,"date":"2023-01-24T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:09:43","slug":"legendary-human-eating-bird-was-real-probably-could-have-eaten-people-smithsonian-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/24\/legendary-human-eating-bird-was-real-probably-could-have-eaten-people-smithsonian-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Human-Eating Bird Was Real, Probably Could Have Eaten People || Smithsonian Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Giant-man-eating-bird-470.jpg?resize=470%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Giant-man-eating-bird-470.jpg?w=470&amp;ssl=1 470w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Giant-man-eating-bird-470.jpg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Giant-man-eating-bird-470.jpg?resize=150%2C80&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>There are a lot of myths about dangerous mythical creatures, from sirens to the Kraken to the hydra, some of which preyed upon humans. In Maori legend, Te Hokioi was a giant black-and-white bird, with a red crest and huge beak. And just like the Kraken was probably based on a real creature\u2014the giant squid\u2014Te Hokioi was probably a real bird.<br><br>That bird would be a Haast eagle, extinct for just 500 years, according to a study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/legendary-human-eating-bird-was-real-probably-could-have-eaten-people-89257268\/\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/legendary-human-eating-bird-was-real-probably-could-have-eaten-people-89257268\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of myths about dangerous mythical creatures, from sirens to the Kraken to the hydra, some of which preyed upon humans. In Maori legend, Te Hokioi was a giant black-and-white bird, with a red crest and huge beak. And just like the Kraken was probably based on a real creature\u2014the giant squid\u2014Te [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5219,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}