New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human arrival. A study published in Science of the Total Environment reveals ...

The closest living relatives of the moa, meanwhile, are the tinamous (which ... In Madagascar, the aptly named elephant bird — which at 10-feet tall was the tallest bird of its time ...

The Mystery of the Giant Birds is a documentary about the flightless birds of Madagascar and New Zealand. It premieres ...

Moa-nalo are a group of flightless birds that lived in Hawaii for over 3 million years until humans arrived. They had large, massive turtlelike beaks, complete with teeth. Some species were as ...

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 ...