The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

This discovery adds to New Zealand’s impressive history of gigantic, now-extinct fauna, which included towering moa birds, ...

Thought to have been left by a moa, an ancient, now extinct, flightless bird, the footprints have helped ... was determined by studying the grain size, grain composition and stratigraphic ...

The little bush moa was once one of the biggest birds in the world—about the size of a modern turkey, they went extinct shortly after the arrival of human settlers in New Zealand. Prior to that ...