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A place where wild meets weird  and nothing is quite what it seems. Presenter Peter Elliott unravels the ancient past of New Zealand revealing astonishing new facts about the origins of our iconic animals. Be prepared to be shocked. 

In Primeval New Zealand our weird wildlife is revealed to be a mix of relative newcomers and ancient lines, the consequence of accidental arrivals, tectonic upheavals, extreme weather changes, extinctions and odd evolutions.

Modern science takes us back in time to when New Zealand was an isolated floating laboratory, pumping out evolutionary misfits. But this science also throws up perplexing mysteries, like how come some of our most iconic species' lineage is older than the land itself?




















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  | Showdate.: January 6th 2013                                    |
  | predate..: January 7th 2013                                    |
  | url......: http://tvnz.co.nz/primeval-new-zealand/