Ghosts of species past: Shedding new light on the demise of NZ’s moa can help other flightless birds
by Damien Fordham, Jamie Wood, Mark V. Lomolino and Sean Tomlinson, The Conversation Maps of initial abundance and distributional center. Credit: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02449-x New Zealand was once home to giant flightless birds called moa. They had grown accustomed to life without predators. So the arrival of humans in the mid-13th