A new study suggests that the flightless birds named moa were completely extinct by the time New Zealand's human population had grown to two and half thousand people at most. The new findings ...

Haast's eagle became extinct sometime around 1400 AD when Polynesian settlers arrived in New Zealand. These settlers hunted ...

PERHAPS no event in the ornithological world was more astounding than the discovery of the bones of the largest known bird, the moa, which existed ... skeleton of a large extinct flightless ...

Maui’s dolphins could soon suffer the same fate as our extinct moa unless urgent action is taken by the Government and fishing industry “to get nets out of the water”, warns WWF-New Zealand. Maui’s ...

It had a large head, bill, legs, and talons. Its bill was up to 130 mm long, and its talons were up to 75 mm long ...