Big extinct birds such as the giant moa, thunderbirds and elephant birds all left eggshells behind them.
From the newscientist.com
Possible candidate species include the woolly mammoth, dodo, Cuban red macaw and New Zealand's giant moa.
From the sciencedaily.com
Is the spray can about to go the way of the giant moa?
From the time.com
They then reconstructed the appearance of the stout-legged moa, heavy-footed moa, upland moa and the South Island giant moa.
From the sciencedaily.com
The giant moa became the iconic symbol of Owen's ability to conjure from fragments of bones the likeness of beasts that had once inhabited Earth.
From the telegraph.co.uk
At about 160 kilograms, the extinct giant moa of New Zealand, Dinornis giganteus, was an avian heavyweight, one of the most massive birds ever.
From the newscientist.com
Oskam and Bunce successfully isolated mitochondrial DNA from the eggshells of several extinct megafauna, including the giant moa of New Zealand and a 19,000-year-old emu from Australia.
From the newscientist.com
Also the giant stone moa in Earnslaw Park that's built to scale.
From the nzherald.co.nz
He plans to use them to help determine what drove New Zealand's giant flightless moa to extinction.