Moa-nalo are a group of extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on the larger Hawaiian Islands, except Hawaii itself, in the Pacific. They were the major herbivores on most of these islands for the last 3 million years or so, until they became extinct after human settlement. Description The moa-nalo (the name literally means "lost fowl"; an "s" isn't added for the plural) were unknown to science, having been wiped out before the arrival of Captain James Cook (1778), until the early 1980s,… (More on Moa-nalo) |