Among the birds, the eagles are the most formidable and dangerous of the lot, but one extinct eagle puts all the others to shame.

Haast’s eagle may have attacked moa like an eagle ... Māori oral tradition remembers the giant raptor. Stories describe the pouākai, a great bird said to have snatched away children.

Modern-day eagles are large birds, but they’re nowhere near the size of some extinct raptors. Here’s the eagle scientists ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...