The Mount Owen Moa- Giant claw found in New Zealand cave

[JR-Orion]

Number five on this list of "The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries."

http://www.cracked.com/article_19837_th ... eries.html

Anyone ever heard of this? How goes the mapping effort?

[nathanroser]

Heh heh Cracked, one of us should do an article there about the most awesome caves no one has ever heard of.

[NZcaver]

Number five on this list of "The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries."

http://www.cracked.com/article_19837_th ... eries.html

Anyone ever heard of this? How goes the mapping effort?

I remember this. I suspect the mapping effort there was completed long ago, but as I recall there are other ongoing surveys in the area.

More info on the Moa claw here - http://extinct-website.com/pdf/Notornis_36_1_36_38.pdf

[Steven Johnson]

Huh -- according to the linked PDF, this was Whalesmouth/Blowhole; we visited those this past March. I vaguely recall Peter Crossley saying they had been connected to each other, but also that it didn't turn out to be particularly interesting (sounded like a less than exciting dig) but I don't recall him mentioning moa finds.

Looks like there was still meat on the claw -- wonder if anyone tried it?

[ian mckenzie]

I wonder if there are any moa caves like that around...