Moa Gallery
			These three chaps are John Eyles, Ron Scarlett and Roger Duff, all of whom have made some contribution to extinct bird research in New Zealand. They have assembled the leg bones of a Dinornis giganteus from the Pyramid Valley excavations in the 1940s. As you can see, the pelvis is head-height (with the leg stretched out almost straight).
		Euryapteryx curtus, one of the turkey-sized moas. By Geoffrey Cox, from Moas: Lost Giants of New Zealand.
		Moa and chicks. Like other ratites, males probably did the parenting, and chicks probably had camouflage stripes. By Geoffrey Cox, from Moas: Lost Giants of New Zealand.
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