The skeleton collection includes some of the Museum's oldest and ... The Museum's main palaeontological bird collections, including moa and elephant birds, are held in the Department of Earth Sciences ...

Ancient flightless birds called Moa were crucial in spreading colorful native fungi across the South Pacific island, stated Biology Letters. The research, led by paleoecologist Alexander Boast ...

There being no animals in New Zealand to prey upon it, the moa’s wings, and even their trace in the skeleton, disappeared. To disuse is to disinherit. Nowhere else on earth can another truly ...