New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

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.

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

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 ...

Moa-nalo are a group of flightless birds that lived in Hawaii for over 3 million years until humans arrived. They had large, massive turtlelike beaks, complete with teeth. Some species were as ...

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

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 ...

Feral species that prey on New Zealand’s birdlife have caused havoc across both islands, and more than 80 per cent are now ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird ...