New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. For an article published in Science of ...

Fungi are crucial to the health of forests. So getting an idea of what fungi the now-extinct moa ate helps the team figure out how New Zealand’s unusual ecosystems worked before humans arrived ...

Kairangahau suggests these fungi relied on moa for spore dispersal, meaning their extinction may be disrupting both fungal spread and Aotearoa’s native forest ecosystems. Ngāti Tarāwhai pest ...

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...