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 ...

The latest release of kiwis in New Zealand has boosted the endangered species' return to suburbs in the capital. It's part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The North Island weka population is booming in the Bay of Plenty. Numbers are growing and the birds are becoming more common ...

The Routeburn Track is one of New Zealand's Great Walks and is located ... and its population of kiwis. (The flightless birds are easy to spot here, often on the beaches.) The Heaphy is another ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless ... bearing wall and rebuild it into something new. Some more recently-evolved feather adaptations ...