A Hundred People Wiped Out a Bird the Size of a Horse

A Hundred People Wiped Out a Bird the Size of a Horse The moa is the only bird we know of that had no wings at all. Not small wings, not useless wings - none. No wing bones, no shoulder joint, nothing. The largest ones stood three and a half metres tall and weighed 250 kilograms. Around 58,000 of them lived in New Zealand. Then about a hundred people arrived by canoe, and within a century every single one was gone. They weren't slow. They just didn't run - because for eighty million years, nothing on the ground had ever hunted them. 00:00 A bird with no wings 01:30 Why they didn't run 04:00 The eagle that hunted them 06:30 One bone fragment, one impossible claim 08:30 The feet that never fossilised 11:00 Bringing it back Sources in the pinned comment. #moa #extinct #newzealand