Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding ...

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless ...

But because truffles grow underground, birds need to be large in order to dig them up—moa, the researchers noted, would have made perfect dispersers, except that humans hunted them to extinction ...

Moa-nalo are a group of flightless birds that lived in Hawaii for over 3 million years until humans arrived. They had large, massive turtlelike beaks, complete with teeth. Some species were as ...

“These fungi very closely resemble berries.” “Until now, we’ve had no evidence that any bird consumes them – including moa.” There are believed to be at least nine species of ...