8 Nov, 2017 2:01pm
A 10m-deep death pit in Martinborough holding thousands of bones from unlucky flightless birds has been dubbed the richest site in New Zealand for certain species, including moa.
"It's just packed with bones under your feet," said Te Papa's curator of vertebrates Alan Tennyson, who paid a visit to the small cave earlier this year.
"The cave is relatively famous, I suppose, in the bird palaeontology world of New Zealand, because it has produced a lot of bones and it's still got bones in it.
"This particular cave is incredibly rich ... thousands of bones already found, and there's probably thousands more still sitting in there.
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