{"id":645809,"date":"2026-10-30T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645809\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:40:11","slug":"giant-eagles-once-ruled-the-skies-they-snatched-human-children-and-shaped-our-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645809\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant eagles once ruled the skies. They snatched human children, and shaped our evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Eagles hunting children may be more than just ancient history. A news report from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/paperspast.natlib.govt.nz\/newspapers\/TS18691231.2.12\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">19th-Century Tennessee<\/a> tells of a child carried away by a &#8220;great grey eagle&#8221; after it swooped down and &#8220;fastened its immense talons in the clothing of the little boy&#8221;. A servant girl gave chase as the bird flew away. Then, two miles away, the bird put its prey down momentarily. A hunter who was nearby let out &#8220;vigorous hallooing&#8221;, scaring the bird away. Thankfully, the &#8220;fine, healthy, rosy boy&#8221; was uninjured.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagles hunting children may be more than just ancient history. A news report from 19th-Century Tennessee tells of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-645809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}