(Paul Banko) A native of Hawai’i, Lewis will talk about extinct and endangered birds of Hawai’i, evolution, survival, ...

Haast’s eagle, the largest eagle ever known, once ruled New Zealand's skies, preying on giant moa. This formidable predator, ...

The South Island of New Zealand was once home to the extinct Haast's eagle, also called Hieraaetus moorei. Weighing about ...

Haast's eagle became extinct sometime around 1400 AD when ... role in the ecosystem by preying on large flightless birds like the moa. The disappearance of Haast’s eagle coincided with the ...

In 1973, just a few years out of college, River Forest local Robert Steed made his first sculpture of an endangered animal.

May 28, 2024 — Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light ...

The closest living relatives of the moa, meanwhile, are the tinamous ... Australia and New Zealand has finally figured out the extinct bird's place in the family tree — and the finding further ...

Read on for our ranking of the scariest extinct creatures we're relieved we ... Their closest living relatives are birds, and fossils found in Kansas reveal much about their flight mechanics ...

I'm several hundred years too late to spot a now-extinct Haast's eagle ... namely the ostrich-like moa bird that weighed as much as 250kg. At this point, we think we've nailed the day, until ...