May 27, 2024 by News Staff

Using ancient DNA recovered from a fossil bone from New Zealand’s South Island, scientists from Harvard University and elsewhere have generated a draft...

Sep 28, 2021 by News Staff

As early as 18,000 years ago, early foragers in the montane rainforests of New Guinea preferentially collected eggs of cassowaries (Casuarius sp.) in late...

Sep 28, 2018 by News Staff

After decades of conflicting evidence and numerous publications, a team of researchers at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology has...

Jul 23, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of scientists led by the University of Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the genome of the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)...

May 23, 2014 by News Staff

The kiwi (Apteryx spp.), a national symbol of New Zealand, is most closely related to members of the family Aepyornithidae – enormous, flightless...