Moa, the Glossary
Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand.[1]
Table of Contents
179 relations: Adzebill, Alice Mackenzie (author), Allen Curnow, Allen's rule, Ancient DNA, Antelope, Archaeology, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Bergmann's rule, Bird nest, Bird vocalization, Blowout (geomorphology), Broad-billed moa, Bush moa, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, Cassowary, Casuariidae, Casuariiformes, Cave, Central Otago, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Cline (biology), Cook Strait, Coprolite, Crane (bird), Crested moa, Cryptozoology, Darwin's rhea, De-extinction, Desiccation, Dinornis, DNA, Dodo, Dromaius, Dune, Dunedin, Eastern moa, Ecological niche, Ecosystem, Elephant bird, Emu, Extinction, Feather, Fecundity, Femur, Fiordland, Flightless bird, Fossil, Fossil track, Gastrolith, ... Expand index (129 more) »
- Dinornithidae
- Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Zealand
Adzebill
The adzebills, genus Aptornis, were two closely related bird species, the North Island adzebill, (Aptornis otidiformis), and the South Island adzebill, (Aptornis defossor), of the extinct family Aptornithidae. Moa and adzebill are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Zealand, Holocene extinctions and Late Quaternary prehistoric birds.
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Alice Mackenzie (née McKenzie) (1873–1963) was a New Zealand author and poet known for her book The Pioneers of Martins Bay describing her early life at Martins Bay, New Zealand in the 1870s and 1880s and supposed sighting of the extinct flightless bird the Moa.
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Allen Curnow
Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist.
Allen's rule
Allen's rule is an ecogeographical rule formulated by Joel Asaph Allen in 1877, broadly stating that animals adapted to cold climates have shorter and thicker limbs and bodily appendages than animals adapted to warm climates.
Ancient DNA
Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient sources (typically specimens, but also environmental DNA).
Antelope
The term antelope refers to numerous extant or recently extinct species of the ruminant artiodactyl family Bovidae that are indigenous to most of Africa, India, the Middle East, Central Asia, and a small area of Eastern Europe.
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Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Auckland War Memorial Museum
The Auckland War Memorial Museum (Tāmaki Paenga Hira), also known as Auckland Museum, is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials.
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Bergmann's rule
Bergmann's rule is an ecogeographical rule that states that, within a broadly distributed taxonomic clade, populations and species of larger size are found in colder environments, while populations and species of smaller size are found in warmer regions.
Bird nest
A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.
Bird vocalization
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.
Blowout (geomorphology)
Blowouts are sandy depressions in a sand dune ecosystem (psammosere) caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
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Broad-billed moa
The broad-billed moa, stout-legged moa or coastal moa (Euryapteryx curtus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand. Moa and broad-billed moa are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds and Late Quaternary prehistoric birds.
Bush moa
The bush moa, little bush moa, or lesser moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) is an extinct species of moa from the family Emeidae (lesser moa). Moa and bush moa are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds and ratites.
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Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
The Canterbury Museum is a museum located in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand, in the city's Cultural Precinct.
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Cassowary
Cassowaries (muruk, kasuari, Biak: man suar, Papuan: kasu weri) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes.
Casuariidae
The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary and the emu. Moa and Casuariidae are ratites.
Casuariiformes
The Casuariiformes is an order of large flightless birds that has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of emu. Moa and Casuariiformes are ratites.
Cave
A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.
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Central Otago
Central Otago is an area located in the inland part of the Otago region in the South Island of New Zealand.
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon.
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Cline (biology)
In biology, a cline is a measurable gradient in a single characteristic (or biological trait) of a species across its geographical range.
Cook Strait
Cook Strait (Te Moana-o-Raukawa) is a strait that separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
Coprolite
A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.
Crane (bird)
Cranes are a type of large bird with long legs and necks in the biological family Gruidae of the order Gruiformes.
Crested moa
The crested moa (Pachyornis australis) is an extinct species of moa. Moa and crested moa are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds and ratites.
Cryptozoology
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe.
Darwin's rhea
Darwin's rhea or the lesser rhea (Rhea pennata) is a large flightless bird, the smaller of the two extant species of rheas. Moa and Darwin's rhea are ratites.
De-extinction
De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of generating an organism that either resembles or is an extinct species.
Desiccation
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.
Dinornis
The giant moa (Dinornis) is an extinct genus of birds belonging to the moa family. Moa and Dinornis are extinct birds of New Zealand, Holocene extinctions and ratites.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
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Dodo
The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Moa and dodo are bird extinctions since 1500, extinct flightless birds and species made extinct by human activities.
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Dromaius
Dromaius (from greek δρομαίυς "runner") is a genus of ratite present in Australia. Moa and Dromaius are ratites.
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Dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.
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Dunedin
Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region.
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Eastern moa
The eastern moa (Emeus crassus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand. Moa and eastern moa are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds and ratites.
Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Elephant bird
Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. Moa and Elephant bird are Holocene extinctions and taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte.
Emu
The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the tallest native bird.
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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.
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Fecundity
Fecundity is defined in two ways; in human demography, it is the potential for reproduction of a recorded population as opposed to a sole organism, while in population biology, it is considered similar to fertility, the natural capability to produce offspring, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.
Femur
The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.
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Fiordland
Fiordland ("The Pit of Tattooing") is a geographical region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the westernmost third of Southland.
Flightless bird
Flightless birds have, through evolution, lost the ability to fly.
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Fossil track
A fossil track or ichnite (Greek "ιχνιον" (ichnion) – a track, trace or footstep) is a fossilized footprint.
Gastrolith
A gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stone, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Gizzard
The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (birds and other dinosaurs, crocodiles, alligators, pterosaurs), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans.
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Goose
A goose (geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae.
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Guineafowl
Guineafowl ((or guineahen) are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes. They are endemic to Africa and rank among the oldest of the gallinaceous birds. Phylogenetically, they branched off from the core Galliformes after the Cracidae (chachalacas, guans, and curassows) and before the Odontophoridae (New World quail).
Haast's eagle
Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei) is an extinct species of eagle that lived in the South Island of New Zealand, commonly accepted to be the pouākai of Māori mythology. Moa and Haast's eagle are extinct birds of New Zealand, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds and species made extinct by human activities.
The heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) is a species of moa from the lesser moa family. Moa and heavy-footed moa are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds and ratites.
Heinrich Harder
Heinrich Harder (2 June 1858 – 5 February 1935) was a German artist and an art professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin best known for his depictions of extinct animals.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
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Honeycomb Hill Cave
Honeycomb Hill Cave is located in the Oparara Basin, on the northwestern edge of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Island gigantism
Island gigantism, or insular gigantism, is a biological phenomenon in which the size of an animal species isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to its mainland relatives.
Isotope analysis
Isotope analysis is the identification of isotopic signature, abundance of certain stable isotopes of chemical elements within organic and inorganic compounds.
Joel Samuel Polack
Joel Samuel Polack (28 March 1807 – 17 April 1882) was an English-born New Zealand and American businessman and writer.
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Kaikōura
Kaikōura is a town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, located on State Highway 1, 180 km north of Christchurch.
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Karamea
Karamea is a town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Karitane
The small town of Karitane is located within the limits of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand, 35 kilometres to the north of the city centre.
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Kiwi (bird)
Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes. Moa and Kiwi (bird) are Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Zealand and ratites.
Lake Taupō
Lake Taupō (also spelled Taupo; Taupō-nui-a-Tia or) is a large crater lake in New Zealand's North Island, located in the caldera of Taupō Volcano.
Last Glacial Period
The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.
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Late Pleistocene
The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.
Lesser moa
The lesser moa (family Emeidae) were a family in the moa order Dinornithiformes. About two-thirds of all moa species are in the lesser moa family. Moa and lesser moa are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Zealand, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds, ratites and species made extinct by human activities.
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded history, specifically before they could be studied alive by ornithological science. Moa and List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species are Late Quaternary prehistoric birds.
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List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene
This is a list of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years Before Present (about 9700 BCE) and continues to the present day.
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Llama
The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era.
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Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
Manawatū River
The Manawatū River is a major river of the lower North Island of New Zealand.
Mantell's moa
Mantell's moa (Pachyornis geranoides) also known as Mappin's moa or moa ruarangi is an extinct species of moa from the North Island of New Zealand. Moa and Mantell's moa are bird extinctions since 1500, extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds and ratites.
Manuherikia River
The Manuherikia River is located in Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.
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Marlborough District
Marlborough District or the Marlborough Region (or Tauihu), commonly known simply as Marlborough, is one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, located on the northeast of the South Island.
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Marton, New Zealand
Marton (Tutaenui) is a town in the Rangitikei district of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island.
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Māori language
Māori, or te reo Māori ('the Māori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.
Megafauna
In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.
Midden
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Moa-nalo
The moa-nalo are a group of extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on the larger Hawaiian Islands, except Hawaiokinai itself, in the Pacific. Moa and moa-nalo are extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions and Late Quaternary prehistoric birds.
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Montane ecosystems
Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains.
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Mount Owen (New Zealand)
Mount Owen is in the Tasman District of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.
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Napier, New Zealand
Napier (Ahuriri) is a city on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Hawke's Bay region.
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Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Natural history of New Zealand
The natural history of New Zealand began when the landmass Zealandia broke away from the supercontinent Gondwana in the Cretaceous period.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson (Whakatū) is a New Zealand city and unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
North Island giant moa
The North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) is an extinct moa in the genus Dinornis, known in Māori as kuranui. Moa and North Island giant moa are bird extinctions since 1500, Dinornithidae, extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds, ratites and species made extinct by human activities.
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Nothofagus
Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.
Notopalaeognathae
Notopalaeognathae is a clade that contains the order Rheiformes (rheas), the clade Novaeratitae (which includes the cassowaries and emus, the kiwis, and the extinct elephant birds), and the clade Dinocrypturi (comprising the tinamous and the extinct moas).
Novaeratitae
Novaeratitae is a proposed clade that was originally defined to contain the recent common ancestors of the orders Casuariiformes (emus and cassowaries) and Apterygiformes (kiwis).
Old Man Range
The Old Man Range, also called Kopuwai, is a mountain range in Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
Ornithological Society of New Zealand
The Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ), also known as Birds New Zealand, is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the study of birds and their habitats in the New Zealand region.
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Ostrich
Ostriches are large flightless birds. Moa and Ostrich are ratites.
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Otago Peninsula
The Otago Peninsula (Muaūpoko) is a long, hilly indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand.
Otago Witness
The Otago Witness was a prominent illustrated weekly newspaper in the early years of the European settlement of New Zealand, produced in Dunedin, the provincial capital of Otago.
Pachyornis
Pachyornis is an extinct genus of ratites from New Zealand which belonged to the moa family. Moa and Pachyornis are extinct birds of New Zealand, Holocene extinctions and ratites.
Paleosol
In geoscience, paleosol (palaeosol in Great Britain and Australia) is an ancient soil that formed in the past.
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Palmerston North
Palmerston North (Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region.
Pennantia corymbosa
Pennantia corymbosa, commonly known as kaikomako (from the Māori kaikōmako), is a small dioecious forest tree of New Zealand.
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Phormium
Phormium is a genus of two plant species in the family Asphodelaceae.
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Pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.
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Polynesians
Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean.
Poverty Bay
Poverty Bay (Māori: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa), officially named Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay, is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Pruning shears
Pruning shears, also called hand pruners (in American English), or secateurs (in British English), are a type of scissors used for plants.
Pseudopanax crassifolius
Pseudopanax crassifolius, the horoeka or lancewood, is a New Zealand native tree belonging to the family Araliaceae.
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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.
Pumice
Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of extremely vesicular rough-textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals.
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Punakaiki
Punakaiki is a small village on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
Pyramid Valley
Pyramid Valley is a locality in the Hurunui District of New Zealand.
Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Quaternary Science Reviews
Quaternary Science Reviews is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering quaternary science.
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Queenstown, New Zealand
Queenstown (Tāhuna) is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.
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R/K selection theory
In ecology, selection theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Rangitīkei River
The Rangitīkei River is one of New Zealand's longest rivers, long.
Ratite
A ratite is any of a group of mostly flightless birds within the infraclass Palaeognathae. Moa and ratite are ratites.
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Red deer
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.
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Rhea (bird)
Rheas, also known as ñandus or South American ostrich, are moderately sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes. Moa and Rhea (bird) are ratites.
Rheiformes
Rheiformes is an order that contains the family Rheidae (rheas).
Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.
Riwaka
Riwaka (Riuwaka) is a small settlement in the Tasman District of New Zealand's South Island.
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Rock art
In archaeology, rock arts are human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces.
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Roger Duff
Roger Shepherd Duff (11 July 1912 – 30 October 1978) was a New Zealand ethnologist and museum director.
Royal College of Surgeons of England
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is an independent professional body and registered charity that promotes and advances standards of surgical care for patients, and regulates surgery and dentistry in England and Wales.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.
Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
Seed
In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa).
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
Sinkhole
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.
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Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
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Sophora microphylla
Sophora microphylla, commonly known as weeping kōwhai and small-leaved kōwhai, is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae native to New Zealand.
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South Island giant moa
The South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) is an extinct species of moa in the genus Dinornis, known in Māori by the name moa nunui. Moa and South Island giant moa are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds and ratites.
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Southern Alps
The Southern Alps (officially Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana) are a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
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St Bathans fauna
The St Bathans fauna is found in the lower Bannockburn Formation of the Manuherikia Group of Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Struthioniformes
Struthioniformes is an order of birds with only a single extant family, Struthionidae, containing the ostriches. Moa and Struthioniformes are ratites.
Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.
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Swan
Swans are birds of the genus Cygnus within the family Anatidae.
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Synonym (taxonomy)
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
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Takahē
The South Island takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is a flightless swamphen indigenous to New Zealand and the largest living member of the rail family.
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Tākaka
Tākaka is a small town situated at the southeastern end of Golden Bay, at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island, located on the lower reaches of the Tākaka River.
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Tūhura Otago Museum
Otago Museum is located near the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand, adjacent to the University of Otago campus.
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Te Anau
Te Anau is a town in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Te Papa
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington.
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Tinamou
Tinamous are members of the order Tinamiformes, and family Tinamidae, divided into two distinct subfamilies, containing 46 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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Trachea
The trachea (tracheae or tracheas), also known as the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the larynx to the bronchi of the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all animals with lungs.
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Trevor Mallard
Sir Trevor Colin Mallard (born 17 June 1954) is a New Zealand politician.
Turkey (bird)
The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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Upland moa
The upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand. Moa and upland moa are bird extinctions since 1500, extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds, ratites and species made extinct by human activities.
Vestigiality
Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species.
Volcanism
Volcanism, vulcanism, volcanicity, or volcanic activity is the phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface of a solid-surface astronomical body such as a planet or a moon.
W & T Avery
W & T Avery Ltd. (later GEC Avery) was a British manufacturer of weighing machines.
Waihemo / Shag River
The Waihemo / Shag River is located in Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.
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Waikanae
Waikanae is a town on the Kāpiti Coast, north of the Wellington.
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Wairau Bar
The Wairau Bar, or Te Pokohiwi, is a gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern South Island, New Zealand.
Waitomo
Waitomo is a rural community in the King Country region of New Zealand's North Island.
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Wānaka
Wānaka is a popular ski and summer resort town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Westland District
Westland District is a territorial authority district on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
Whaler
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
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William Colenso
William Colenso (17 November 1811 – 10 February 1899) FRS was a Cornish Christian missionary to New Zealand, and also a printer, botanist, explorer and politician.
William Williams (bishop)
William Williams (18 July 1800 – 9 February 1878) was consecrated as the first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand, on 3 April 1859 by the General Synod at Wellington.
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Yorkshire Museum
The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England.
See also
Dinornithidae
Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Zealand
- Adzebill
- Callaeidae
- Kiwi (bird)
- Lesser moa
- Moa
- Mohoua
- New Zealand goose
- New Zealand wren
- Piopio (bird)
- Xenicus
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
Also known as Dinornithiformes, Moa (bird), Moas, Moaspecies, Wingless bird, Wingless birds.
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