>>27553573The age of the islands could come into account. It's counterpart Hawaii has been around an estimated six million years. That would place the island as just a small molten lump of earth during the stone age. Animals of that time were Mammoths, sabertoothed cats, and Wooly Rhinoceros were around. However they weren't around in Hawaii. Hawaii had Gull birds that could fly and would nest, mollusks, plants, and fish as it's only known fossil records.
Here is a list of the extinct genus of hawaii
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/endangered/extinct.html 