Analyses of genetic material from the fossils of large flightless birds called moas suggest that three types of the extinct birds may not be separate species after all.
BIG BIRD. In this 1877 photo, British paleontologist Richard Owen, who described the first moa fossils, stands next to a reconstructed moa skeleton.
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