Sentences with phrase «flightless moa»

New Zealand was home to nine species of flightless moa until humans arrived around AD 1300.

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Moas were tall, flightless, and evidently tasty: In the space of 300 years, the native Maori had wiped them out.

Cooper first compared moa and kiwi DNA to see if the two flightless birds were closely related.

Here you can find the bones of moa - nalo, the giant flightless ducks that once ruled Hawaii.

Scientists at Harvard University have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that went extinct soon after Polynesians settled New Zealand in the late 13th century.

The man - sized moa has been extinct for two centuries, and the flightless huia for one.

For millions of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as moas (Dinornithiformes) thrived in New Zealand.

Humans have driven thousands of species extinct over the millennia, ranging from moas — giant, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand — to most lemurs in Madagascar.

In isolation, New Zealand bloomed into a biome of species known nowhere else in the world, including the Moa: huge, flightless birds hunted to extinction by the early peoples.

Though many species — such as the moa, a giant flightless bird, and the Haast's eagle, with its impressive 10 - foot wing span — have gone extinct since European settlers arrived, countless others remain, such as the kakapo, the world's heaviest parrot (which is also flightless) and the tuatara, a reptile that was a contemporary of the dinosaurs and is now the last of its kind.