The moa: giant dinornithiform birds, up to 3.6 metres tall and 250 kg. Entirely wingless. All that remained of their wings was a tiny little digit. They lived in New Zealand. They were wiped out completely in only 100 to 200 years by the tribes who settled the islands in the 1300s.
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
