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North Island giant moa
| North Island giant moa Temporal range: Late Pleistocene– Holocene
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| Skeleton, Natural History Museum of London | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
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List
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| Measurements | |||
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| North Island [3] | |||
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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]
- ^ Brands, S. (2008)
- ^ Checklist Committee Ornithological Society of New Zealand (2010). "Checklist-of-Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands and the Ross Dependency Antarctica" (PDF). Te Papa Press. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ Birds of New Zealand[not specific enough to verify]
- ^ Doyle, Trent (15 November 2023). "Scientists reveal fossilised moa footprints in Otago are at least 3.6 million years old". Newshub. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
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