A bone from a moa, a large extinct flightless bird formerly found in New Zealand.
quite a few moa bones were excavated from the site yesterday
it was the first fragment of moa bone to be discovered
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- The moa bones told a story of waste.
- She has already extracted DNA from two grams of Moa bones from Canterbury Museum.
- He stands in a graveyard of moa bones on a South Taranaki beach puzzling at the sight before him.
- Thousands of moa bones have been recovered from swamps and caves and, due to the wide range of shapes and sizes found, over 60 different species names have been assigned in the 160 years since their discovery.
- He found brown, water-worn stones along with moa bones.
- Unlike the bones of all modern birds, several moa bones show growth marks similar to the rings found on tree stumps.
- For New Zealanders, it would be like having all these moa bones but not having the vaguest idea when these animals lived.
- Now a study of moa bones in museums has determined that the huge flightless birds took much longer than modern birds to reach reproductive maturity.
- With the large samples of moa bones now available to them, they are even able to document a pattern of size diminution within species lineages from the last glacial maximum to the Holocene epoch.
- Now the moa bones and stones that have been found in dunes are more likely to have been a moa who has lived to the end of his life: they hadn't necessarily been in an accident at all.