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Extinct / Dinornis / Moadinornis giganteis - a reconstruction based on bones discovered
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)
Extinct dinornis or moa, aepyornis ingensAn artists impression of how the extinct dinornis or moa (aepyornis ingens), a genus of flightless birds native to Madagascar, might have looked
Aepyornis Ingens MoaAn artists impression of how aepyornis ingens, a genus of flightless birds native to Madagascar, might have looked
Moa, Dinornis novaezealandiae, extinct giant bird of New Zealand.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F. John from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1910, Hamburg
Moa birds, Dinornis robustus, being hunted by men with bows and arrows.. The moa were flightless birds native to New Zealand, hunted to extinction by the Maoris
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
Dinornis giganteus, giant moaSpecimen of the extinct bird the giant moa (Dinornis giganteus), the largest bird that ever lived
Leg Bones of the Dinornis Maximus, 1865Engraving showing a Victorian gentleman holding the leg bones of a Dinornis Maximus, or Gigantic Bird of New Zealand, pictured in 1865
Dinornis GiganteusA DINORNIS GIGANTEUS (giant moa) is about to be attacked by a native New Zealander, while a smaller DINORNIS ELEPHANTOPUS browses in the background
Dinornis MaximusSir Richard Owen poses beside the skeleton of a moa (dinornis maximus)