To determine this rate of decline, an international team of paleogenetisicts examined DNA samples from 158 leg bones belonging to three species of Moa, extinct giant birds from New Zealand. The bones ...

Thought to have been left by a moa, an ancient, now extinct, flightless bird, the footprints have helped ... footprints and the widths of the ankle bones (i.e., tarsometatarsi) of the moa species ...

The Museum's main palaeontological bird collections, including moa and elephant birds, are held in the Department of Earth Sciences. A striking mounted specimen of a great white pelican, which has one ...

The moa, large and slow-moving, were an easy target. Every part of the bird was valuable: meat for sustenance, bones for ...

Skeletal remains and 12 unbroken eggs of the elephant bird, Aepyornis, from Madagascar. Owen's statue at the Museum shows him holding the moa bone fragment, and one of the elephant bird eggs is on ...