Emeus a.k.a. Eastern Moa
In Depth Emeus was originally named as a species of Dinornis, D. crassus, by Richard Owen in 1846, but ten years later the ornithologist Ludwig Reichenbach elevated this species to its own genus. Almost this exact sequence of events happened with another moa genus named Anomalopteryx. Also known as the Eastern Moa, Emeus was very much like its larger relative Dinornis, however, while Dinornis is … Read more