According to Dr. Sean Tomlinson, lead researcher of the study, the extinction of the moa was practically unavoidable under ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. For an article published in Science of ...

“There aren’t too many moa trace fossils, particularly from the Auckland Region and from the Early-Middle Pleistocene era,” Erickson said. The museum housed just six moa specimens from the ...

Owen's statue at the Museum shows him holding the moa bone fragment, and one of the elephant bird eggs is on display in the Bird Gallery. The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from ...

The Maui Nui Moa-nalo (left) was the largest of the grazing flightless ducks that once roamed the forests of Kauai, Oahu and Maui Nui eating leaves and ferns. -- STANTON FINK illustration For ...