Scientists have found the fossilized remains of a prehistoric giant penguin unlike any other deep in the craggy coastlines of ...

Fossils found in New Zealand highlight an era after the dinosaurs when giant flightless birds prowled the seas ... open several of these 57-million-year-old boulders, revealing bits of fossilized ...

Crested Moa. Pachyornis australis. From the series ExSnct Birds of New Zealand., 2005, Masterton, by Paul MarSnson. Te Papa (2006-0010-1-19). Researchers have found New Zealand’s endangered ...

Wellington, New Zealand (AP) – It’s noisy, smelly, shy – and New Zealand’s bird of the year. The hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, won the country’s fiercely fought avian election on Monday ...

An annual vote to elect New Zealand's favourite bird has exploded into an international ... as his team had been in touch earlier in the year. The 46-year-old has a history of wading in on New ...

The mutual dependence of a colorful pigeon and some of New Zealand’s iconic trees is at the centre of a landmark Year of the Forests project in that country. A project to help the Kereru bird and ...