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A team of evolutionary biologists has reconstructed the nearly complete genome of the bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis), a flightless bird from New Zealand that went extinct 500 to 600 years ago. Researchers from Harvard University, East Carolina University, Osaka University, and the University of Toronto sequenced ancient DNA from a
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The bush moa is the smallest moa species known to date. It was only slightly larger than today's turkeys and reached a weight of around 30 kilograms. The flightless bird died out around 500 to 600 years ago with the colonisation of New Zealand. (© Auckland Museum, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)