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Extinct moa rewrites New Zealand's history

Published on Thursday, 19 November 2009 05:00 from ScienceDaily

The evolutionary history of New Zealand's many extinct flightless moa has been re-written in the first comprehensive study of more than 260 sub-fossil specimens to combine all known genetic, anatomical, geological and ecological information about the unique bird lineage.

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