Extinct
#moa consumed colorful truffle-like
#fungi in New Zealand
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-dna-extinct-moa-consumed-truffle.html paper:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0440 "In other places,
#truffle spores are dispersed by
#mammals such as squirrels.
#NewZealand does not have such mammals; the
#truffles there have traditionally relied on
#birds to serve as a disperser. But because truffles grow underground, birds need to be large in order to dig them up—moa would have made perfect dispersers"
