DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding ...

are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped them confirm that moa feasted on colorful ...

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The film will be directed by the New Zealand-based screenwriter and director James Lucas ... The artist also tattooed a pair of birds on the model’s lower back. Speaking to Vanity Fair, she joked: “I ...

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The second-highest mountain in New Zealand has been granted ‘personhood’ by the NZ parliament because it is regarded as the ...

Meet some of the world’s most colorful species. We explore the stunning patterns ... red damselfly on the leaf Image by antpkr via Depositphotos The Red Damselfly is native to New Zealand. Their ...

In the abstract, all musicals are weird. People don’t just start singing at dramatic moments in real life, so the genre ...

Much is unique to the island: 98 percent of Madagascar’s land mammals, 92 percent of its reptiles, and 41 percent of its bird species exist nowhere else ... One of the most scenic walks in New Zealand ...