Heavy-footed Moa
Extinct circa 1400 CE • South Island of New Zealand
Artist unknown: Moa with feet like an elephant. Dinornis elephantopus. Vol. I, page 32. [London, John Murray, 1859]. Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
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