North Island giant moa Temporal range: Late Pleistocene- Holocene
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Skeleton, Natural History Museum of London | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
Order: | †Dinornithiformes |
Family: | †Dinornithidae |
Genus: | †Dinornis |
Species: | †D. novaezealandiae
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Binomial name | |
†Dinornis novaezealandiae | |
Synonyms | |
List
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Measurements | |||
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North Island [3] | |||
Length | ![]() |
240 cm (94 in) | |
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300 cm (120 in) | ||
Weight | ![]() |
55–88 kg (120–190 lb) | |
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78–249 kg (170–550 lb) |
The North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) is an extinct moa in the genus Dinornis, known in Māori as kuranui.[4] Even though it might have walked with a lowered posture, standing upright, it would have been the tallest bird ever to exist, with a height estimated up to 3.6 metres (12 ft).[citation needed]