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Moa were the most unusual and unique family of birds that ever lived, a clan of feathered monsters that developed in isolation for many, many millions of years. Moa became extinct reasonably quickly after the arrival of Māori, and were a distant memory by the time European explorers arrived. So, the discovery and identification of their bones in the 1840s was a worldwide sensation, claimed by many to be the zoological find of the century.
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