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The Haast’s Eagle: The Largest Known Eagle Hunted Prey Fifteen Times Its Size

In a land without lions, wolves, or even snakes, the apex predator of this realm once had feathers. Before the first Polynesian settlers stepped onto New Zealand’s shores some 750 years ago, the ...
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Canterbury Museum: New Research - Bald Haast's Eagle Feasted On Moa Guts

New Zealand’s extinct Haast’s Eagle (Hieraaetus moorei), the largest known eagle, gulped down viscera like a vulture and may even have been bald, new research suggests. An international team of ...
Nature

This enormous eagle could have killed you, probably

You might see the gigantic Haast’s eagle in your nightmares, but never aloft in the New Zealand skies, because it went extinct centuries ago. But was this largest known eagle of all time — weighing as ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Legendary New Zealand giant eagle was a killer that ate like a vulture

Cave paintings in New Zealand's South Island depict the majestic bird known as Te Pouākai, or Te Hōkioi. Haast's eagle lived on New Zealand's South Island until around 500 years ago While it had the ...