Moa bone fragment

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Moa bone fragment

First 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. Moa were enormous extinct birds from New Zealand. This fragment of bone provided the first evidence that they existed. Richard Owen, the Natural History Museums first superintendent, used his great anatomical knowledge to predict that it belonged to a giant bird that couldn t fly. Date: 1831

Media ID 14238762

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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