The most remarkable change was in the mysterious New Zealand adzebill – with its enormous reinforced skull and beak – but the mighty Haast's eagle and rather impressive Eyles' harrier also ...

Ask a bird lover if they have heard of the extinct giant moa or its ancient predator, Haast’s eagle, and the answer will likely be yes. The same can’t be said of New Zealand’s extinct, but ...

The only southern hemisphere representatives of this group are the critically endangered Brazilian merganser and those from the New Zealand region, which are now extinct. Unlike some of New Zealand's ...

Some of the letters written to you have sent a tingle down my spine, especially the one from the extinct dodo bird. Don’t think that I am a silly billy goat. Spooky stuff really spooks me out. I ...

The AI software Chat GPT has been making waves for it’s impressive output. It’s latest feat: the bot scored a passing grade for the notoriously difficult United States Medical Licensing Exam, ...

Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, were a fox-like marsupial that became extinct on the Australian mainland less than 2000 years ago. The surviving Tasmanian population was wiped out by European ...

When an overseas Twitter account described New Zealand as a “hellhole” this week because of the country’s current lockdown rules, New Zealanders on Twitter responded in the best possible way ...

A massive deep sea squid caught near Whakaari/White island is the subject of much scientific excitement today. A group of marine experts gathered in Auckland for the dissection of the rarely caught ...

"It was likely flightless and certainly spent most time on the ground where it walked about with at least a couple moa species and a similar sized adzebill." According to Worthy, the species ...

Scientists have revealed the African origins of New Zealand's most mysterious giant flightless bird – the now extinct adzebill – showing that some of its closest living relatives are the pint-sized ...

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