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Binge watched prehistoric planet while recovering from surgery, and I am so unbelievably obsessed with these guys. Get smaller.

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My god.. That sexual dimorphism... You love to see it.

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Past paleontologists believed the Giant Moa couldn't fly as it was very heavy and lacked wings, but modern science suggests they could fly for short distances on their positive attitude and optimism.

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Now, this is the same outfit that reckoned they’d brought back dire wolves, which they hadn’t when you looked closely, I think they’d sort of genetically jiggled a modern wolf to be more dire? So I’m gently sceptical about this claim. It seems more likely that they’ll produce a somewhat moafied emu or similar.

I think Peter Jackson could probably find a better use for his Hobbit money too. What about fixing up the Wellington Public Library?

Also, my mum, the country’s leading moaphobe, will probably want to arson their laboratory.

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#2481 - Dinornis novaezealandiae - North Island Giant Moa

Known in te reo Māori as kuranui.

One of the skeletons recovered from a mudpit near Mākirikiri in the 1930s.

Up until recently, many reconstructions have them with upright necks, which would make them the tallest birds in the world - 3.6 metres (12 ft). It now seems they head their neck horiziontally, which is much more sensible for trying to get through Aotearoa's dense forests. Either way, the males were half the mass of their mates.

Hunted to extinction by the 15th century, some 200 years after humans first arrived on the islands. The tracks the giant birds made, connecting fresh water to good resting sites under rocky cliffs, continued to be used by the Māori for centuries after the birds had all been eaten.

Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand

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