Sentences with phrase «zealand moa»

But the diversity of those tiny bits of DNA was growing, including DNA from the Tasmanian tiger, dodo bird, the New Zealand Moa, the mammoth, woolly rhino, saber - toothed cats, Egyptian mummies, and even Neanderthals.

Not exact matches

Early human settlers probably did wipe out the moas of New Zealand.

New Zealand was home to nine species of flightless moa until humans arrived around AD 1300.

Scientists at Harvard University have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that went extinct soon after Polynesians settled New Zealand in the late 13th century.

This species, which scientists think evolved from lancewood, grows on the Chatham Islands 800 kilometers east of New Zealand, where moas didn't live.

To test the moa hypothesis, Kevin C. Burns, an evolutionary ecologist at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and colleagues compared lancewood leaves with those from the similar tree Pseudopanax chathamicus.

Oskam and Bunce successfully isolated mitochondrial DNA from the eggshells of several extinct megafauna, including the giant moa of New Zealand and a 19,000 - year - old emu from Australia.

For millions of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as moas (Dinornithiformes) thrived in New Zealand.

The moa bones were all between 600 and 8000 years old, and came from a 5 - kilometre - wide area of New Zealand's South Island, key factors for the researchers to identify a regular pattern of decay.

Archaeologists know that the Polynesians who first settled New Zealand ate moas of all ages, as well as the birds» eggs.

Humans have driven thousands of species extinct over the millennia, ranging from moas — giant, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand — to most lemurs in Madagascar.

Lastly, microlensing results from the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics survey (MOA) of Japan and New Zealand and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) of the University of Warsaw, Poland were included in the study.

New Zealand's famous ostrich - like moas might make a comeback.

It was first detected on June 1, 2009 by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration with the 1.8 - meter telescope at the Mount John University Observatory in New Zealand.

He formerly worked as a copy editor for Hodder Moa Beckett Publishers in New Zealand (now part of Hachette Group), and in freelance roles.

He formerly worked as a copy editor for Hodder Moa Beckett Publishers in New Zealand (now part of Hachette...

In isolation, New Zealand bloomed into a biome of species known nowhere else in the world, including the Moa: huge, flightless birds hunted to extinction by the early peoples.

Even without the Moa, New Zealand is biogeographically like its own continent.

The «hockey stick» controversy reminds me of a quote by Jared Diamond about the Maori people and the extinction of the moa in New Zealand.

From goats ripping up the soil in Greece and the Norse Icelanders badly over-extending their range, through to the Maori burning down the forests of the South Island of New Zealand on their way to exterminating the Moa.