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The largest birds that ever lived on Earth, elephant birds have a spotty fossil record. But understanding them could help protect Madagascar’s biodiversity.
The Bahama warbler favours large pine trees and palms, fieldwork shows.
A puzzle over the identity of an extinct bird that laid eggs across Australia has been solved.
Tasmania’s emus were hunted to extinction in the mid-1800s but we could have them back – and their return could help other species survive climate change.
The identification of a vulture that lived more than 50,000 years ago is shedding more light on biodiversity loss and ecosystem change in Australia.
Tracing extinctions that happened centuries ago is difficult. But in New Zealand, the last place to be settled some 750 years ago, ancestral Māori oral traditions retain clues about lost species.
Scientists long assumed that the extinct moa played an important role as a disperser of large seeds. But a new study finds that New Zealand’s largest herbivore only dispersed the tiniest seeds.
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Environmental Ethics and Conservation, Arizona State University
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Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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PhD Candidate in Ecology, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Computational Biology, Massey University
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Conservation biologist, University of Otago
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Associate Professor, University of Waikato
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Research Associate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) Policy Hub – Training and Education, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Conservation Biology, University of East Anglia
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Research Associate / Teaching Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Tasmania
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Adjunct associate lecturer, Flinders University
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Professor of Palaeoproteomics, University of Cambridge
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Associate professor, Università di Torino
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Ph.D. Student in Biology and Society, Arizona State University
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Honorary Professor of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
