CuriousAnimals » extinct animals http://curiousanimals.net Animals kingdom opens for you Thu, 24 May 2012 10:40:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Giant Moa Birds Seem To Be Alive http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/ http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:59:34 +0000 angel http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/ Moa Birds were big birds, they considered to be one of the biggest birds ever known in our Big World. However, there were smaller Moa as well (not bigger than a turkey).  Moa birds are called extinct birds but not so far, there appeared some doubts whether this fact is true or not?

Moa birds were native to New Zealand. They led their own lives, enjoyed them, but suddenly arrived the Maori people. They started killing birds, because there were scarce of food, Moa Birds were haunted. According to scientists, Moa birds were extinct by 1500 and no white men ever succeed to see such a bird. :-(

Stone Moa birds

So, Moa birds:

  • were really big;
  • lived in forests;
  • were extinct many many hundred years ago;
  • there were 11 species of Moa Birds;
  • people still find their bones.

Strange sign about Moa crossing

Not so far, a scientist from Australia claimed that Moa Birds are alive and he can show us photographic evidence next month. Rex Gilroy says that he is about to discover the colony of the presumed-extinct little scrub moa – anomalopteryx didiformis in the Ureweras. He is almost ready to bet, that they are alive. But he is not going to reveal the exact location of birds. He doesn’t pay attention to critical and skeptical remarks and believes to meet  Moa Birds one day. 

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