The South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) is an extinct species of moa in the genus Dinornis. It was the tallest-known bird species to walk the Earth, exceeded in weight only by the heavier but shorter elephant bird of Madagascar (also extinct).
Follow the journey of giant beasts and the ancestors of humans across the Middle Pleistocene to the Chalcolithic across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Polynesia.
