New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human arrival. A study published in Science of the Total Environment reveals that ...

Moa were large, flightless birds that wore magnificent cloaks of feathers and lived in New Zealand until about five hundred years ago. There were nine species of these extinct birds and they ...

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.

When humans arrived in New Zealand they set about dramatic changes to the landscape, which in turn impacted birdlife.