Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Kieren Mitchell receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Alexander Verry does not work for ...

New Zealand moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) are the only late Quaternary megafauna whose extinction was clearly caused by humans. New Zealand offers the best opportunity to estimate the number of people ...

Damien Fordham receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Jamie Wood, Mark V. Lomolino, and Sean Tomlinson do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Only a few months after announcing the controversial “de-extinction” of the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now set its sights on restoring the nine species of giant moa that roamed New Zealand ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas-based ...

The South Island giant moa could be the next species that biotech company Colossal Biosciences "brings back" from extinction — but experts say the result will not and "cannot be" a moa. When you ...

WASHINGTON — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led ...