Equipped with dagger-like talons and a powerful beak, Haast’s eagle could take down these giant birds with remarkable ease.
Haast's eagle was quite a giant among birds of prey. Its wingspan could spread up to 3 meters and its body weight was up to 15 kilograms. Any eagle species that is alive in the present is smaller.
But there’s more… less than a mile away, in another, bigger overhang, is another charcoal image of what is probably the moa’s giant predator. The Haast eagle, the largest that has ever lived ...