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 ...

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 ...

A paleogeneticist has warned discussions should start around New Zealand's response to the de-extinction of animals. It comes ...

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 ...

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.