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Moa Extinction: How Humans Wiped Out New Zealand’s Giant Birds In Just 300 Years
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 that ...
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Fossil bird collection
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 ...