According to Dr. Sean Tomlinson, lead researcher of the study, the extinction of the moa was practically unavoidable under ...

“There aren’t too many moa trace fossils, particularly from the Auckland Region and from the Early-Middle Pleistocene era,” Erickson said. The museum housed just six moa specimens from the ...

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 ...