DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints, bones and even teeth. But, while insightful, these artifacts don’t always paint a complete picture of an ancient creature ...

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Up until now, no evidence of the extinct birds eating the truffles had been found. The evidence for moa truffle consumption came courtesy of a fossilized ball of poop (coprolite) found in a cave ...

In The Place for History, a bird once found in Missouri is now officially extinct and a German immigrant who lived in the ...

While this number may still seem modest, it represents an incredible recovery for a bird once presumed extinct. The takahe is currently listed as “Endangered” on the IUCN Red List, reflecting ...

Owen's statue at the Museum shows him holding the moa bone fragment ... In addition to recently extinct species, like moas and elephant birds the Museum also cares for older fossil bird specimens from ...

the University of Adelaide and the University of Auckland has found that the now-extinct flightless bird moa once consumed the colorful, ...

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 ...