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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...