New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human ...
New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...
Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going extinct. An international team of researchers ...
New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. For an article published in Science of ...
Moa were large, flightless birds that wore magnificent cloaks of feathers and lived in New Zealand until about five hundred years ago. There were nine species of these extinct birds and they ...
A very large collection of moas from New Zealand, including several type specimens and the original fragment of long bone that allowed Richard Owen to deduce the existence of these large extinct ...
In 2024, researchers found many of New Zealand's endangered flightless birds, including the takahē, weka and great spotted kiwi, are surviving in the same cold and isolated mountainous areas ...
Using mitogenome data from nearly all living and recently extinct New Zealand mainland bird species, researchers discovered many species associated with grass and shrubland, like pīhoihoi ...
What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...