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Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Picture shows Owen and the skeleton of Dinornis maximus, c. 1877. From The Life of Owen (1894)
Moa bone fragmentFirst piece of moa bone, found between 1831 and 1836. The 15cm fragment comes from the species Dinornis novaezealandiae and is 0.01-1.8 million years old
Dinoris sp. moa skeletonsInscribed J. Benjamin Stone, July 1907. Held in the Natural History Museum Archive PH 128/6
Dinornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moaAn extinct wingless bird from the superficial deposits of the middle island of New Zealand in the gallery of Fossils, British Museum, height of skeleton 5 ft 6 in. 1858. NHM Archives 1210 1/11
Little Bush MoaIllustration of a Little Bush Moa by James Erxleben
Pachyornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moaSkeleton of a heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) specimen found in New Zealand during the Holocene period (10, 000 to present). See also T25118
Pachyornis elephantophus, moa birdThe giant extinct bird seen here is a Moa and is about 5000 years old, found exclusively in New Zealand
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) painted in 1844Owen holds the leg bone of a moa, and is wearing robes of Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. Oil painting by Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875)
Upland Moa
Dinornis giganteus, giant moaSpecimen of the extinct bird the giant moa (Dinornis giganteus), the largest bird that ever lived