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.

Haast's eagle was a 15-kilogram bird of prey that lived in New Zealand ... similar to the largest owl which ever lived, the Cuban giant owl. Others debated whether the birds were adapting to becoming ...

Scientists have known about the existence of Haast's eagle for over a century based on excavated bones, but the behaviour of these giant birds was not clear. As the eagles weighed up to 40 lbs ...

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 ...

"Haast's eagle wasn't just the equivalent of a giant predatory bird," said Dr Scofield. "It was the equivalent of a lion." The eagle is thought to have died out after the arrival, 1,000 years ago ...