The Giant Moa

The giant Moa

The giant Moa was an animal from New Zealand that became extinct around the eighteen and the nineteen centuries. They can be also be called Dinornis.

Description

They have a brown coat with white and brown feathers and they have very sharp claws. The male adult’s height is about 5-6metres and the females are about 4.6 metres. Babies were about 1.8 metres tall.  Their ears were holes in the side of their head just like dinosaurs.  They had a short sharp beak for eating plants.

Habitat

They lived In New Zealand deep in forests. They nested in caves and near trees all around New Zealand.

Diet

Herbivore which  means they ate plants, leaves, grass

toitoi and seeds.

Extinction

The Cave men killed them also the Volcano killed them.

Means extinct my opinion is yes.