For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

The male stitchbird, otherwise known as the hihi, now at the centre of New Zealands's weirdest fundraiser Conservationists in New Zealand have come up with a novel way of raising money for one of ...

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 ...

South Island takahe—a prehistoric-looking flightless bird endemic to New Zealand's rugged ... the importance of safeguarding this rare and iconic species. One of the first responses ...

For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...