Importance of release of birds For the Māori people, the release of these birds into the valley holds immense importance. Cassidy, reflecting on the event, said, “incredibly significant – for me personally, being able to do it on my own land, just remembering and thinking about the seve...
The forelimb-specific gene tbx5 is highly conserved and essential for the development of forelimbs in zebrafish, mice, and humans. Amongst birds, a single order, Dinornithiformes, comprising the extinct wingless moa of New Zealand, are unique in having no skeletal evidence of forelimb-like struc...
1. Introduction The dromornithids were large flightless birds, collectively known as 'mihirungs', whose fossils are a distinctive component of the Cenozoic avifauna of Australia, and are sometimes comparatively abundant in the Australian Neogene fossil record [1,2]. The greatest diversity of the ...