When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

Lyall’s wren was formally described in 1894 and extinct by 1895. Walter Buller’s comment that the scientific world heard “almost simultaneously of the bird’s discovery and ... and the rest were from ...

New University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

New esearch shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future migration patterns.

Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Try these discussions to improve your speaking and listening. There are 20 questions in each activity - 10 for Student A and 10 for Student B. You can print out the worksheet. You can listen to the ...

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Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...