Moa

Author and illustrator Ned Barraud tackles the story of our largest prehistoric bird - the moa. Audio, Gallery

Author Sarah Ell's new book Lost Wonders: Vanished Creatures of Aotearoa is an all-ages introduction to the vanished creatures of Aotearoa New Zealand, from the long extinct species to those now on… Audio

Around 850 years ago Polynesian explorers found an empty land and the story of people in Aotearoa began. A new culture emerged; tangata whenua had arrived and started to thrive. Audio

Moa footprints are being carefully extracted from a rural Otago river, where they were discovered by chance in March. The footprints are believed to be a couple million years old, and the first… Video, Audio

Moa footprints, that are likely the oldest record of the giant birds ever documented, have been disovered for the first time in the South Island. Thought to be millions of years old , the prints were… Audio, Gallery

Researchers have found out what made two of our famous birds flightless, but with this new discovery will scientists now try to reverse it? Audio

Bags of bone fragments are casting a genetic spotlight on New Zealand's lost natural world, and on the impact of early Polynesians on its biota. Audio

The idea that a moa could still be stalking some hidden valley still excites the Kiwi imagination. While many claimed sightings have been laughable, some might have been real, says Ngā Taonga Sound &amp… Audio

After twenty years of puzzling, geologist Bruce Hayward reckons he has identified some mysterious patterns in a west Auckland roadside cutting as moa footprints. Audio

The ‘de-extinction’ of animals has moved from science fiction to science possibility, but there are significant risks and the issue raises many questions says an Otago University zoologist. Audio