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Moa Extinction: How Humans Wiped Out New Zealand’s Giant Birds In Just 300 Years
New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human arrival. A study published in Science of the Total Environment reveals that ...
As scientists work to resurrect extinct animals, a paleogeneticist warns species like moa need to be trademarked
A paleogeneticist has warned discussions should start around New Zealand's response to the de-extinction of animals. It comes ...
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Pastures Past: The many moa discoveries of the 1930s
Moa were large, flightless birds that wore magnificent cloaks of feathers and lived in New Zealand until about five hundred years ago. There were nine species of these extinct birds and they ...
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Fossil bird collection
Skeletal remains and 12 unbroken eggs of the elephant bird, Aepyornis, from Madagascar. Owen's statue at the Museum shows him holding the moa bone fragment, and one of the elephant bird eggs is on ...
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As scientists work to resurrect extinct animals, a paleogeneticist warns species like moa need to be trademarked
Colossal Biosciences chief executive Ben Lamm said the company was interested in looking at New Zealand’s extinct bird species such as the moa in the future. “We’ve been very public about this.