title: Moa: The dramatic story of the discovery of a giant bird
author:  Richard Wolfe 
description: Wolfe has worked as display artist at Canterbury Museum and Auckland War Memorial Museum, and is now a freelance curator and writer. He lives in Freemans Bay, Auckland.
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  Chapter One
  I set my feet into the dusty Arizona mesa, and I lifted my arms up into
  the air while Ky and Beyblade vaulted into the skies to fight our prey.
  The monstrous bird was quadruple the size of an albatross, way bigger
  than anything we’d ever fought on land before. The huge beast flew around
  on massive golden wings, and its entire body shimmered in the southwestern
  sunlight. Its long beak and sharp talons were its main weapons against us, but
  we were careful to stay clear of the deadly tools so we wouldn’t get hurt.
  The thunderbird flapped its massive golden wings, and then an
  explosion of sound shook the ground and almost knocked me down to my
  knees. The beast’s shiny yellow beak opened before it screeched, and it
  sounded almost like muffled na