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Burrows, C.; etal. (1981). "The diet of moas based on gizzard contents samples from Pyramid Valley, North Canterbury, and Scaifes Lagoon, Lake Wanaka, Otago". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 9: 309–336. The bad news is: not a damn thing. That guy was a raping, screaming drunk shovel-beater and everyone is pleased as punch that he’s dead.

Good morning. A fairly brisk solve with perhaps a greater proportion of straightforward clues than we usually see on a Tuesday, but plenty of well-disguised deception and clever exploitation of multiple meanings to keep us on our guard. Berentson, Quinn. (2012). Moa: the life and death of New Zealand's legendary bird. Nelson, N.Z.: Craig Potton. ISBN 978-1877517846. OCLC 819110163. Davidson, Janet. "Roger Shepherd Duff". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

Analyses of fossil moa bone assemblages have provided detailed data on the habitat preferences of individual moa species, and revealed distinctive regional moa faunas: [11] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] South Island [ edit ] A restoration of Dinornis robustus and Pachyornis elephantopus, both from the South Island Here, a touching scene taking place on the bed, that the camera is clearly not interested in capturing whatsoever, since it’s just focusing on this dresser and fainting couch like they’re going out of style. (In retrospect, this camera was probably right.)

OSNZ (January 2009). "New Zealand Recognised Bird Names (NZRBN) database". Ornithological Society of New Zealand Inc. Archived from the original on 25 April 2015 . Retrieved 14 February 2011.

Analyses of ancient DNA have determined that a number of cryptic evolutionary lineages occurred in several moa genera. [23] These may eventually be classified as species or subspecies; Megalapteryx benhami (Archey) is synonymised with M.didinus (Owen) because the bones of both share all essential characters. Size differences can be explained by a north–south cline combined with temporal variation such that specimens were larger during the Otiran glacial period (the last ice age in New Zealand). Similar temporal size variation is known for the North Island's Pachyornis mappini. [24] Some of the other size variation for moa species can probably be explained by similar geographic and temporal factors. [25] Note to all: these entries are inevitably huge and image-heavy. I didn’t use all fifty screencaps, but there are certainly 30something of them under this cut.

Gill, B.J. (2007). "Eggshell characteristics of moa eggs (Aves: Dinornithiformes)". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 37 (4): 139–150. Bibcode: 2007JRSNZ..37..139G. doi: 10.1080/03014220709510542. S2CID 85006853. Family Emeidae (Bonaparte 1854) [Emeinae Bonaparte 1854; Anomalopterygidae Oliver 1930; Anomalapteryginae Archey 1941] (lesser moa) Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Moas". In Hutchins, Michael (ed.). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol.8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp.95–98. ISBN 978-0-7876-5784-0. Heritage of folly / Catherine Marchant (the pseudonym of Catherine Cookson)". NLA.gov.au. National Library of Australia. Elephant birds, flightless ratites up to over 3 metres tall that once lived on the island of Madagascar.Worthy, Trevor (1998b). "The Quaternary fossil avifauna of Southland, South Island, New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 28 (4): 537–589. Bibcode: 1998JRSNZ..28..537W. doi: 10.1080/03014223.1998.9517575. The lower leg of Pachyornis elephantopus, with skin and muscle, from the Hector Range in 1884; [57] [76] (currently held by the Zoology Department, Cambridge University) Huynen, Leon J.; Millar, Craig D.; Scofield, R.P.; Lambert, David M. (2003). "Nuclear DNA sequences detect species limits in ancient moa". Nature. 425 (6954): 175–178. Bibcode: 2003Natur.425..175H. doi: 10.1038/nature01838. PMID 12968179. S2CID 4413995. A Dinner of Herbs (2000) with Jonathan Kerrigan, Melanie Clark Pullen, Debra Stephenson, David Threlfall and Billie Whitelaw

FIGHTER: A comparative adjective meaning less heavy has its first letter replaced by a different one (change of starter) Allentoft, M.E.; Rawlence, N.J. (20 January 2012). "Moa's Ark or volant ghosts of Gondwana? Insights from nineteen years of ancient DNA research on the extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand" (PDF). Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger. 194 (1): 36–51. doi: 10.1016/j.aanat.2011.04.002. PMID 21596537. Le Roux, M., " Scientists plan to resurrect a range of extinct animals using DNA and cloning", Courier Mail, 23 April 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2014.Dried muscle on bones of a female Dinornis robustus found at Tiger Hill in the Manuherikia River Valley by gold miners in 1864 [74] (currently held by Yorkshire Museum) Reg survives, but when Duncan and Agnes come to visit him at his request, they find out that he lost an arm, and his face got torn up, and he has no plans to accept his inheritance and be the next Lord Whatshisface. He wants Duncan to do it instead. Duncan, completely unaware that he is not long for the world, agrees.