How to Use moa in a Sentence

moa

noun

• Centuries ago, bush moas were among the world's largest birds.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• The smallest, the little bush moa, stood a little over four feet tall.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• Certainly, the moa were, which would be enough to doom the predator.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• Rather than cows or antelopes, there was a family of flightless birds known as moa.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• Rather than cows or antelopes, there was a family of flightless birds known as moa.
  — Boyce Upholt, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2022
• There were 11 or so species of moa alive in the past, ranging from hefty to alarmingly large.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2012
• Colossal's de-extinction projects now span dodos, dire wolves, mammoths, and moas.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
• The team also tracked down a second upland moa coprolite that was housed in a museum.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• Researchers have been finding bush moa fossils for centuries, Edwards said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• Today, moa are extinct and kakapos as well as kiwi, the nation’s bird, are endangered.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2019
• When Western scientists first encountered moa, the idea that species could go extinct was just a few decades old.
  — Boyce Upholt, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2022
• When Western scientists first encountered moa, the idea that species could go extinct was just a few decades old.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• The moa's eggs were about the size of a football, which is far larger than the eggs of the moa's closest living relatives, such as the emu.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 19 May 2026
• Colossal is already working on artificial eggs that would be big enough for the dodo and moa embryos.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 19 May 2026
• Colossal Biosciences’ ultimate goal is to bring back extinct birds like the giant moa or dodo.
  — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 28 May 2026
• The moa was a large, flightless bird native to New Zealand, with species reaching up to 12 feet in height.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• Still, the team hopes to eventually bioengineer a bird that closely resembles the extinct moa in size and form.
  — Moná Thomas, People.com, 12 July 2025
• Now, however, with the moa extinct, the fungi are likely not being dispersed as widely or as often.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• New Zealand was once a land of flightless birds like the extinct moa—no terrestrial mammalian predators in sight.
  — Rina Diane Caballar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• These include the world's biggest parrot, a giant eagle, a giant burrowing bat, and the moa, a kind of large flightless bird.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 14 Aug. 2019
• These include the world’s biggest parrot, a giant eagle, a giant burrowing bat, and the moa, a kind of large flightless bird.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
• The moa were a species of flightless birds native to New Zealand that were hunted to extinction by humans.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2019
• The company now hopes to use the technology to bring back extinct birds, including the dodo and the giant moa.
  — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 28 May 2026
• Long fascinated by the moa, Jackson and Walsh have been collecting bones of the extinct bird for years.
  — Degen Pener, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
• The process of bringing back birds like the moa, however, is an entirely different ballgame because they are formed inside of an egg.
  — Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 9 July 2025
• The goal is to rehabilitate former moa habitats to support native wildlife, though no timeline has been given for when a moa-like bird might be born.
  — Moná Thomas, People.com, 12 July 2025
• Not only moa dominated avifaunas, but giant geese and adzebills shared the forest floor, while a giant eagle ruled the skies.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
• Evolution went even further in New Zealand’s moas, which were completely wingless.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
• The company is also working to bring back the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, the dodo, and the moa.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
• Just as the mammoth project birthed the quest for artificial wombs, the moa project spurred the development of artificial eggs, since no bird alive today is big enough to lay a moa.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026