Equipped with dagger-like talons and a powerful beak, Haast’s eagle could take down these giant birds with remarkable ease.

Haast’s eagle, the largest eagle ever known, once ruled New Zealand's skies, preying on giant moa. This formidable predator, potentially inspiring Māori legends, vanished due to prey loss.

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 ...