| 单词 | moa |
| 例句 | “Mm. I wrote a report about moas in grade school. I thought they were the neatest thing.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Just as modern humans walked up to unafraid dodos and island seals and killed them, prehistoric humans presumably walked up to unafraid moas and giant lemurs and killed them too. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That’s probably the best known. They say there used to he so many of them they would darken the sky when they flew over. And the moa.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z This was his reward, she said, for telling her about moas. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most Polynesian islands originally supported big flightless birds that had evolved in the absence of predators, New Zealand’s moas and Hawaii’s flightless geese being the best-known examples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Modern birds have wings which are more or less developed depending on the species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The absence of terrestrial predators allowed flightless parrots, kiwis and moas to thrive. The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed Was a ‘Monster Bird’ 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z A tussle with the moa in our streets? Opinion | It’s true our Hawaiian Islands are overrun — and not just by chickens 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z So far, scientists have sequenced the genomes of about 20 extinct species, including a cave bear, passenger pigeon, and several types of mammoths and moas. Bringing back the woolly mammoth and other extinct creatures may be impossible 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The researchers say these results suggest the Haast’s eagle killed moa and then ate their guts. This Extinct Eagle May Have Gulped Guts Like a Vulture 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Findings from a 2012 study on moa bones show an organism’s genetic material deteriorates at such a rate that it halves itself every 521 years. Possible Dinosaur DNA Has Been Found 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z This puts great auks in the same doomed-by-humans category as the passenger pigeon and the moa. Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z That has left the surplus native moa, forgotten, free to flourish. Opinion | It’s true our Hawaiian Islands are overrun — and not just by chickens 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z New Zealand is believed to have been the site of many gigantic birds that later became extinct, including the world’s largest parrot, a giant eagle and an emu-like bird called the moa. Scientists say monster penguin once swam New Zealand oceans 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Parrots, eagles, burrowing bats and the moa, a 3.6m-tall bird, also feature. 'Human-sized penguin' lived in New Zealand 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z What started as a typical childhood infatuation with dinosaurs developed into a fascination with the moa, a giant flightless bird native to New Zealand, which is now extinct. From Encyclopedic Collector to ‘Wikipedian-at-Large’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Until recently, scientists assumed their closest relative was the giant moa from New Zealand. World’s biggest bird might have been as blind as a bat 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z And the blitzkrieg hypothesis remains viable elsewhere: New Zealand's moa—another large flightless bird—went extinct less than 2 centuries after the arrival of the first Polynesians. New find clears Madagascar's first settlers of wiping out world's largest bird 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z For millions of years, the giant moa consisted of nine species of ostrichlike flightless birds native to New Zealand. The Biggest Bird That Ever Lived and 5 More Bird Superstars 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Instead, they discovered giant birds called moas, as well as a host of other indigenous bird species. Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z His preoccupation with the moa led Mr. Dickison to complete a Ph.D. on the subject of giant flightless birds at Duke University decades later. From Encyclopedic Collector to ‘Wikipedian-at-Large’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z They also assumed that, like the moa, elephant birds were active during the day. World’s biggest bird might have been as blind as a bat 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Before humans arrived on New Zealand, it was a land of birds, weird, wild, strange birds like the now extinct family of giant moas and the still–surviving kakapo. New species discovered behind a pub – then saved from extinction 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “When the Polynesians settled New Zealand, there were about 58,000 moas,” Bird says. The Biggest Bird That Ever Lived and 5 More Bird Superstars 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Now that the moas are gone, “The forest has potentially lost a potentially major way to spread.” Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z New Zealand’s biggest oddballs were the moa, which, in a feathers-for-fur sort of way, stood in for elephants and giraffes. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z "It's remarkable that elephant birds, rheas, moa, ostriches and emus all evolved their very similar body types and size independently from a small, flighted ancestor." Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide retrieved the first moa DNA, and gradually other researchers found more. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Over the next century or so, the moa disappeared. After the Fact: Bird’s Extinction Is Tied to the Arrival of Humans 2014-03-24T21:39:57Z Two species, the upland moa and the South Island moa, had mosses and ferns in their diets, the researchers report, whereas the others did not. Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The largest of them, the South Island giant moa, weighed five hundred pounds, and with its neck outstretched could reach a height of twelve feet. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The moa is an extinct flightless bird that gets considerably less attention than the dodo. Museum's dinosaurs get overhaul 2014-02-16T02:01:41Z Another giant ratite, the moa, lived on New Zealand until about 600 years ago. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The South Island giant moa even appeared to be on the rise when people arrived. After the Fact: Bird’s Extinction Is Tied to the Arrival of Humans 2014-03-24T21:39:57Z The upland moa also carried a parasite that it could have only obtained by eating pond snails or aquatic plants, suggesting this relatively small species focused on foods larger moas ignored. Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z When the Maori showed up, there were nine species of moa in New Zealand, and it was also home to the world’s largest eagle—the Haast’s eagle—which preyed on them. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country Five species are known. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z In the 1990s, scientists began testing Dr. Cracraft’s hypothesis through DNA comparisons of . of living species.They also started searching for material from extinct moas and elephant birds. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z They found that in the millenniums before humans arrived in New Zealand, the moa displayed none of the genetic bottlenecking indicative of a declining population. After the Fact: Bird’s Extinction Is Tied to the Arrival of Humans 2014-03-24T21:39:57Z The fungi found in coprolites are essential to the survival of beeches, and Cooper thinks moas played an important role in helping beech trees expand across New Zealand. Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Within a century or two, the Maori had hunted down all of the moa, and the Haast’s eagle, too, was gone. New Zealand’s Crusade Against Mammals | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z New Zealand formerly possessed three species of dinornis, one of which, called moa by the islanders, was much larger than the ostrich. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z In 2008, Oliver Haddrath of the Royal Ontario Museum and his colleagues compared the moa DNA to those of other ratites and got a surprise. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z When Maori settlers arrived in New Zealand in the 13th century, they were greeted by some formidable inhabitants: the moa, nine species of flightless birds up to 12 feet tall. After the Fact: Bird’s Extinction Is Tied to the Arrival of Humans 2014-03-24T21:39:57Z Beech forests are well established in the country, but natural disasters have wiped out the trees in some patches, and they haven’t returned; that might be because they lacked the moas’ help, Cooper says. Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The Proceedings of the Royal Society B research demonstrated the approach also on emu, ducks and the extinct moa. Good egg - DNA of extinct birds found in ancient shells 2010-03-10T00:22:00Z Dinornis, or moa, recent extirpation of, in New Zealand, 95. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z They found that the closest relative of the moa was a small flying bird from Central and South America called the tinamou. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z If now this land were gradually to be submerged, leaving a central elevated region, the different species would become crowded together in this portion just as the moas and kiwis were in New Zealand. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras The team, led by Harvard University molecular ecologist Alison Cloutier, discovered that the genetics underlying the moas’ winglessness are different than those for other birds that don’t fly, such as the Galápagos cormorant. Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The principal public buildings are the government buildings and the museum, with its fine collection of remains of the extinct bird, moa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The bones of a gigantic bird, the moa, are to be found, but the bird itself has long been extinct. Six Letters From the Colonies The new genus Dinornis, which includes also the celebrated moa, or gigantic bird of New Zealand, and bears some resemblance to the present Apteryx, or wingless bird of that country . Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia But besides these, a number of other wingless birds, called "moas," inhabited New Zealand during the period of human occupation, and have only recently become extinct. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras This first moa genome will help decipher other moa species’ DNA as well, Wood says. Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z “Moa, moa,” he said, dropping his arm again, and pointing to the eggs, “Kiwi, kiwi.” The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens "She is something moa than the best steeplechaser that ever looked through a bridle-ah," he announced in his somewhat portentous way. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs Looking pleasantly in your direction he says:— "Will you have a little moa?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 Its one large creature of the lower world was the moa, of which Sir George said 'It was akin to the ostrich, but no European, I believe, ever saw it alive.' The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. “Ultimately, the combination of genomics and palaeoecology will provide an incredibly detailed view of the lives of moa.” Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z In New Zealand, there are no indigenous quadrupeds at all; and there the huge moa attained to dimensions almost equalling those of the giraffe. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Staten Land was the name first given to New Zealand in honour of the States of Holland, and the monstrous birds seen there were probably the now extinct moa. Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century The objection to reply No. 1 is that it may cause unpleasantness, or your host may retort, "I didn't ask you if you would have a little more moa," and thus increase your embarrassment. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 In these fire-heaps Mr. Mantell found burned bones of 'men, moas', and 'dogs'. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Thus we may explain the origin of so many flightless and rather bulky birds in oceanic islands, as the dodo, the cassowary, and the extinct moas. Darwinism (1889) A flying moa is almost an impossible conception; even the ostriches compete practically with the zebras and antelopes rather than with the eagles, the condors, or the albatrosses. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science He was the moa, the servant of the high priest, and this was his sister whom he loved. White Shadows in the South Seas Salevao, the god of the rocks, observed motion in the moa or centre of the earth. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before Now, I am going to—well, there is no need to make any bones about it—going to forge a complete stuffed moa. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents Whales, like moas and cassowaries, carry us back to a remote past, of whose conditions we know too little for safe speculation. Darwinism (1889) The dodo was in existence fifty years ago, the moa about a hundred years ago. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Now Zealand formerly possessed several species of dinornis, one of which, called moa by the islanders, was larger than the ostrich. The Earth as Modified by Human Action But the wind was taken out of his sail by the laughter and antics of his friend on the beach shouting after him: "Moa, moa, lulu!" Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before There must have been a sufficiency of moas in the old forgotten days when his breed walked the earth. Following the Equator, Part 4 The company exterminated the moa to get the mails. Following the Equator — Part 1 Few people believe in the existence of a moa. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement I knew that I was looking on a cemetery of elephants, the place where these great beasts went to die, as I have since been told the extinct moas did in New Zealand. The Ivory Child His curiosity was excusable, for he had recognized, or thought he had recognized, these birds as "moas" belonging to the species of "dinornis," which many naturalists class with the extinct birds. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant This means that the moa has not been extinct very long. Following the Equator, Part 4 Occasionally we hear rumours of the footprint of a moa, and the Nelson surveyors found fresh foot-tracks of a bird, which were measured for fourteen inches. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement A gentleman who lives at the Kiakoras possesses a moa's egg; it is ten inches by seven. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement I do not remember finding a single sandstone specimen of a moa gizzard stone. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement After a few minutes of chase, these fleet-footed moas disappeared among the tall trees, and the sportsmen lost their powder and their pains. 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