Tūhura Otago Museum
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Tūhura Otago Museum, located near the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand, adjacent to the University of Otago campus, is one of the country's largest museums and a prominent attraction in the city. T
Otago Museum original entrance, with its signature Moeraki boulder
The H.D. Skinner Annex, a historic former post office added to the museum in 2013
Tangata whenua (Māori) gallery
Reconstructed moa. The museum holds the world's largest collection of moa remains.
Moa
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Moa are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand. During the Late Pleistocene-Holocene, there were nine species, in six genera. The two largest species, Dinornis robustus a
Tūhura Otago Museum
…arachnids from around the world. Marine invertebrate specimens number in the 40,000s, while 30,000 bird specimens (including nests and eggs) are held. The moa collection is among the world's best, with two out of the three complete moa eggs in the world held, the Ettrick Egg and the First Earnscleugh Egg. The…
Dinornis maximus, Natural History Museum
Neck tissue of Emeus crassus
Holotype head and neck of Megalapteryx
Soft tissue attached of several moa