PERHAPS no event in the ornithological world was more astounding than the discovery of the bones of the largest known bird, the moa, which existed in New Zealand, the fringe of the great sunken southern continent. The first mention of this bird in literature was made in Polack's New ...
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New Zealand has long been known as a place for the birds — quite literally. Before people arrived 700 years ago, the archipelago hosted an idiosyncratic ecosystem, nearly free of mammals. More than 200 bird species filled a food web all their own. Rather than cows or antelopes, there w...
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The New Zealand Story follows the exploits of a flightless native bird of New Zealand called a Kiwi, who happens to look very little like a real kiwi bird.
North Island Giant Moa is an extinct bird Friend that appeared in the original Kemono Friends mobile game.
3D scan of a South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) skeleton from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Moas are extinct birds that lived on New Zealand. This skeleton was donated to the museum by Dr. Julius Ritter von Haast in 1884. This specific skel
While pelagornithid or ‘bony-toothed’ bird fossils representing multiple species are known from Antarctica, a new dentary fragment of a pelagornithid bird from the middle Eocene Submeseta Formation on Seymour Island, Antarctica represents a species with a body size on par with the largest known...
for the first time the newly discovered species of a now-extinct giant petrel, which they’ve namedMacronectes tinae. They identified the bird—the only recorded species of giant petrel to have gone extinct—by studying a skull and an upper wing bone discovered on New Ze...
(Phys.org) -- An international team of scientists involving researchers from the University of Adelaide has used ancient DNA from bones of giant extinct New Zealand birds to show that significant climate and environmental changes did not have a large imp