Freelance geologist David Bressan, blogging for Scientific American, writes about the early investigations into ‘giant birds’ reported by European settlers […]
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Moa populations stable until humans arrived
Researchers have analysed DNA from bones of a number of giant extinct moa and used the data to make inferences […]
Continue readingNZ Herald/NZPA: Male moa stayed at home to sit on eggs
Analysis of moa eggshells suggest that, much like modern ratites like the kiwi, it was male moa that sat on […]
Continue readingTVNZ/NZPA: Scientists discredit Moa’s Ark theory
Scientists from Massey University are disputing the hypothesis that New Zealand’s flora and fauna have evolved without much external influence […]
Continue readingThe Press: Moa DNA gives up some secrets
Paul Gorman reports in The Press on the first successful isolation of DNA from ancient eggshell fossils by an international […]
Continue readingCoverage: DNA extracted from fossil eggshells
For the first time, DNA has been successfully extracted from fossilized eggshells, with some of the fragments being from moa. […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Moa ‘flew from South America’
Simon Collins of the NZ Herald reports recent research suggesting that the moa originally came to New Zealand by flying […]
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