Tuesday 2 January 2024 – 10.02pm WIB
Poor, TOURISM – Scientists estimate that the earth is about 4.54 billion years old, even older than human existence. In fact, there is much more to learn about our home planet than what is taught in school. Then, when photos of the bird’s unusually large claws emerged on linepeople couldn’t help but be surprised.
The giant claw was discovered by members of the Speleological Society of New Zealand.
According to a report by archeologyworld.com, archaeologists were traveling through the Mount Owen cave system in New Zealand when they made a surprising discovery. It was a claw that looked like it belonged to a dinosaur. And to their surprise, there was still muscle and skin tissue attached.
Later, they discovered that the mysterious claws belonged to an extinct species of flying bird called moa. Originally from New Zealand, these moa, unfortunately, became extinct around 700-800 years ago.
Thus, archaeologists later suggested that the mummified moa claw must be more than 3,300 years old after its discovery.
The Moa lineage probably began about 80 million years ago on the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. Derived from the Polynesian word for bird, moa include three families, six genera and nine species.
There are species that vary in size, some the size of a turkey, while others are larger than an ostrich. Of the nine species, the two largest are about 12 feet tall and weigh about 510 pounds.
2024-01-02 15:02:00
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