DNA study shows extinct moa consumed colorful truffle-like fungi in New Zealand
A team of environmental scientists at Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, in New Zealand, the University of Adelaide and the ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Fossil bird collection
Owen's statue at the Museum shows him holding the moa bone fragment, and one of the elephant bird eggs is on display in the Bird Gallery. The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from ...
BBC1 个月
Ancient parrot in New Zealand was 1m tall, study says
Bird family tree shaken by fossil discovery Baby bird fossil is ... large birds is not uncommon in New Zealand, once home to the moa, a now-extinct species whose height reached an estimated ...
The Maui News5 年
Birds were critical factor in natural history of the islands
The Maui Nui Moa-nalo (left) was the largest of the grazing flightless ducks that once roamed the forests of Kauai, Oahu and Maui Nui eating leaves and ferns. -- STANTON FINK illustration For ...
BBC5 年
'Human-sized penguin' lived in New Zealand
Parrots, eagles, burrowing bats and the moa, a 3.6m-tall bird ... was 1m tall and possibly carnivorous Ruffled feathers over fossil bird find Baby bird fossil is 'rarest of the rare' Today's ...
Business Insider India5 年
Penguins as big as humans survived whatever killed the dinosaurs — as per fossils in New ...
For the country which is already host to the discovery of a bunch of bird fossils — like the world’s largest parrot, the giant eagle, burrowing bats and the moa — a penguin the size of a ...