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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article title updated for style. | Nov 13, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Moa. | Nov 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct? | Nov 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences - Moa diet fits the bill: virtual reconstruction incorporating mummified remains and prediction of biomechanical performance in avian giants. | Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - A nuclear genome assembly of an extinct flightless bird, the little bush moa. | Nov 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography. | Jun 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Museum of Ireland - Extinct Moa Bird from New Zealand. | May 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PLOS Journals - More than One Way of Being a Moa: Differences in Leg Bone Robustness Map Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories in Dinornithidae and Emeidae (Dinornithiformes). | Feb 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - A high-precision chronology for the rapid extinction of New Zealand moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes) (PDF). | Aug 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Extinct Animals - Moa. | Jul 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Prehistoric - Wildlife - The Moa Birds of New Zealand. | Feb 15, 2023 | ||
| Changed the plural of moa from “moas” to “moa.” | Aug 09, 2021 | ||
| Added an illustration of the South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus). | Jan 21, 2020 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 23, 2018 | ||
| Added new Web site: Animal Planet - Moa. | Jun 02, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Dinornis maximus. | Feb 27, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Moa. | Feb 27, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Geographic News - Moa. | Nov 02, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: New Zealand Birds - Moa. | Nov 02, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: NZETC - Moa. | Nov 02, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Moa. | Nov 02, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 12, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Moa. | May 14, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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