In January 1843, a consignment of miscellaneous bones from New Zealand allows Richard Owen to reconstruct the skeleton of a giant flightless bird which he names the Dinornis Novae Zealandiae, thus confirming his prediction of three years earlier that he had discovered an extinct bird. Image: Plate XCVII of Owen and a Moa Skeleton, Richard Owen, Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand, Vol. 2 (London: John van Voorst, 1879). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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Gowan Dawson, "On Richard Owen's Discovery, in 1839, of the Extinct New Zealand Moa from Just a Single Bone"