Elephant bird - Wikipedia
Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. They are thought to have gone extinct around 1000 AD, likely as a result of human activity. Elephant birds comprised three species, one in the genus Mullerornis, and two in Aepyornis.
Moa - Wikipedia
They were the largest terrestrial animals and dominant herbivores in New Zealand's forest, shrubland, and subalpine ecosystems until the arrival of the Māori, and were hunted only by Haast's eagle. Moa extinction occurred within 100 years of human settlement of New Zealand, primarily due to overhunting. [7]
Argentavis - Wikipedia
Argentavis is an extinct genus of teratornithid known from three sites in the Epecuén and Andalhualá Formations in central and northwestern Argentina dating to the Late Miocene (Huayquerian). The type species, A. magnificens, is sometimes called the giant teratorn.
Moa | Size, Extinction, & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月21日 · Moa, any of several extinct ostrichlike flightless birds native to New Zealand that make up the order Dinornithiformes. They ranged in size from as big as a turkey to larger than an ostrich; some stood as tall as 3 meters (10 feet). DNA evidence suggests that moa are related to South American tinamous.
Top 35 Extinct Birds From Millions To Zero! - BioExplorer.net
2024年5月26日 · Extinct birds include Dodo bird, Carolina parakeet, the passenger pigeon, laughing owl, Labrador duck & more. Learn reasons why birds are becoming extinct.
Moa Facts, Habitat, Diet, Fossils, Pictures - Extinct Animals
2022年3月28日 · The Moa, also known as the Giant Moa, was a genus of large-size birds that were endemic to the island nation of New Zealand several centuries back. These flightless birds, which existed in nine species under six genera, lived in the country for several thousand years before the Māori colonists settled in the country in around 1300 AD.
Into Thin Air: The Loss of the Pliocene Giant Volant Birds
3 天之前 · Giant Pelagornithidae became extinct after flourishing for more than 50 Ma [72], although smaller species of teratorns, vultures and storks continued to exist into the Holocene. The outstanding common factor that links these extinct taxa is their large size; strongly suggesting a global phenomenon that relates to body mass.
Ancient DNA illuminates lives of New Zealand’s extinct giant
2024年5月24日 · Although other species of moa were true giants, this flightless bird was taller—and much heftier—than a modern turkey. The iconic avian, which played a key ecological role in the forests of New Zealand and was closely related to the emu and ostrich, was hunted to extinction about 700 years ago.
AVOTREX: A Global Dataset of Extinct Birds and Their Traits
Here we present AVOTREX, an open-access database of species traits for all birds known to have gone extinct in the last 130,000 years. This database provides detailed morphological information for 610 extinct species, along with a pipeline to build phylogenetic trees that include these extinct species.
Just How Massive Was the Largest Extinct Bird? - A-Z Animals
2022年9月1日 · There are many species of extinct birds, from prehistoric giants who went extinct 65 million years ago to tiny Hawaiian honeycreepers now facing extinction. But which was the biggest to ever set feather on planet Earth? Read on to discover the largest extinct bird ever, including exactly how large it was and if anything dared to prey on it.