New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human ...

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. For an article published in Science of ...

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 ...

Several moa species moved across the landscape ... expansion of grasslands at the start of the Ice Age some 2.6 million years ago. Many endemic New Zealand birds belong to young lineages that date ...

The latest release of kiwis in New Zealand has boosted the endangered species' return to suburbs in the capital. It's part of ...

In 2024, researchers found many of New Zealand's endangered flightless birds, including the takahē ... areas where the last of the now extinct moa found temporary refuge. DOC’s takahē expert ...

Some species, like the moa, were simply hunted to extinction ... took advantage of the shifting landscapes to make New Zealand home. Native birds responded to the Ice Age in a variety of ways.