Paleontologist Richard Owen, in 1879, with a skeleton of the largest of nine extinct species of moa. Wikimedia commons That the assembly of an extinct genome is being spread like scientific ...

Giant moa bird (Dinornis robustus, literally meaning ‘robust strange bird’) may not have actually had robust bones, according to new research. The leg bones of one of the tallest birds that ...

Back off, extinct moa. Leaf color and shape may defend a New Zealand tree species from a long-gone giant bird ...

All species of New Zealand’s ostrichlike moa, including the North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) seen in this illustration, went extinct after humankind arrived.

The evolutionary history of New Zealand's many extinct flightless moa has been re-written in the first comprehensive study of more than 260 sub-fossil specimens to combine all known genetic ...

Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going extinct. An international team of researchers ...

Giant moa bird (Dinornis robustus, literally meaning 'robust strange bird') may not have actually had robust bones, according to new research conducted by The University of Manchester Giant moa ...

One suggestion is that the tracks were made by a subadult; moa species like the North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) could reach heights between 2 to 3 meters (6.6 to 9.8 feet), so it ...

The moa, a species of giant flightless birds, went extinct soon after humans arrived in New Zealand during the 13th century Wikimedia Commons Around 1800, an ominous refrain, Ka ngaro ā-moa te ...

Giant extinct flightless birds apparently had the most fragile bird eggs discovered yet.

Almost another 100 years would pass before the extinction of any other moa species. Mantell’s moa was especially vulnerable to extinction because of its slow population growth rate.

Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going extinct. An international team of researchers ...