Our bird skeleton collection, also called the avian osteology collection ... The Museum's main palaeontological bird collections, including moa and elephant birds, are held in the Department of Earth ...
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 ...
New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human ...