Science news articles about 'extinct birds'

... -human New Zealand has been found in faeces from giant extinct birds, buried beneath the floor of caves ... detailed picture of an ecosystem dominated by giant extinct species. Former PhD student Jamie ...

... at London's Natural History Museum. "We were then able to use these results to predict how extinct birds and reptiles may have heard and found that Archaeopteryx had an average hearing range of ...

ADELAIDE, Australia, July 6 (UPI) -- Australian and New Zealand scientists say they have completed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird.

Researchers have discovered than a supposedly ‘extinct’ bird is still going, by combining modern and ancient DNA evidence with fossil data.

DNA recovered from fossilised bones of the moa, a giant extinct bird, has revealed a new geological history of New Zealand, reports a study published this week in the Proceedings of ...

... information about the sense of smell in the ancestors of modern birds. Therrien and Zelenitsky found that the extinct bird Archaeopteryx, known to have evolved from small meat-eating dinosaurs, had ...

A rare quail from the Philippines was photographed for the first time before being sold at a poultry market, experts say.

... Alan Cooper says this finding suggests it may be possible to reconstruct the appearance of other extinct birds using feathers from fossil deposits. "There are so many enigmatic extinct species that ...

Scientists have found that a New Zealand tree camouflaged itself to avoid an extinct bird, the first example of colour defense in plants.