South Island giant moa Temporal range: Late Holocene
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Skeleton, likely of an adult male | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
Order: | †Dinornithiformes |
Family: | †Dinornithidae |
Genus: | †Dinornis |
Species: | †D. robustus
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Binomial name | |
†Dinornis robustus | |
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The South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) is an extinct species of moa in the genus Dinornis, known in Māori by the name moa nunui.[2] It was one of the tallest-known bird species to walk the Earth, exceeded in weight only by the heavier but shorter elephant bird of Madagascar (also extinct).[citation needed]
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