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

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.

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

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

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 ...