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    • Model of a moa being attacked by a Haast’s eagle.
    Rights: Sergio Alexandro, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Published 27 August 2009 Size: 69 KB Referencing Hub media

    This is a model of a moa being attacked by a Haast’s eagle. Moa DNA has been extracted from feathers believed to be at least 2,500 years old.

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      Moa were ‘plain Janes’

      Researchers from Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research and Adelaide University in Australia have managed to extract ancient DNA from feathers belonging to four species of the extinct moa. The ...

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