Using mitogenome data from nearly all living and recently extinct New Zealand mainland bird species, researchers discovered ...

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 equally ...

WELLINGTON (AFP): Five extinct species have been included on the ballot to find New Zealand's most popular feathered friend as competition organisers hope to draw attention to endangered birds.

A paleogeneticist has warned discussions should start around New Zealand's response to the de-extinction of animals. It comes after an American bio-engineering company, Colossal Biosciences, told RNZ ...

A very large collection of moas from New Zealand, including several type specimens and the original fragment of long bone that allowed Richard Owen to deduce the existence of these large extinct ...

Department of Conservation kākāriki karaka operations manager Wayne Beggs told Morning Report the birds have been declared ...

New Zealand was the land of birds and lizards ... In the last 60 years, only one mainland bird has become extinct. This is despite severe underfunding and a Conservation Department that’s ...

she and her colleagues discovered the first—albeit extinct—Caribbean bird whose closest relatives are in Africa, New Guinea and New Zealand. In a follow-up study, they used the same techniques ...

The parakeet was once common across New Zealand but is now considered the rarest mainland forest bird in the country ... as well as habitat loss. Declared extinct twice before being ...

Colossal Biosciences chief executive Ben Lamm said the company was interested in looking at New Zealand’s extinct bird species such as the moa in the future. “We’ve been very public about this.