Bird bone streaming
A new website for viewing 3-D bird bones aims to make bird bones in museums more accessible for research and teaching.
Plants & Animals
Feb 4, 2019
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News tagged with kiwi
Innovative processing and packaging for safe, high-quality, organic berry products
Over the last two decades, there have been growing concerns about the adverse effects of conventionally grown produce on our health and the environment. As a result, more and more consumers are choosing to buy organic foods. ...
Other
Sep 28, 2018
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2 kiwi birds are rare bright spot in grim extinction report
Two types of New Zealand kiwi birds are a rare bright spot in a mostly grim assessment of global species at risk of extinction.
Ecology
Dec 5, 2017
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Kiwi birds younger than originally thought, research shows
New Zealand's kiwi may be one of the world's oddest birds – flightless, nocturnal, an enigmatic dirt digger with nostrils at the end of its long bill. But the national symbol also has a lot to tell the world about evolution ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2016
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Footage captures kiwi destroying robin nest, revealing unknown behavior
A kiwi destroying a robin nest and causing the death of the chicks in it has been caught on camera by a Victoria University of Wellington researcher.
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2015
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Kiwi bird genome sequenced
Its unusual biological characteristics make the flightless kiwi a unique kind of bird. Researchers of the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now sequenced ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2015
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Ancient DNA ends Aussie claim to kiwi origins
Australia can no longer lay claim to the origins of the iconic New Zealand kiwi following University of Adelaide research published in the journal Science today showing the kiwi's closest relative is not the emu as was previously ...
Plants & Animals
May 22, 2014
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New Zealand's kiwi probably started out an Aussie, study finds
In a finding likely to be a bitter blow for many New Zealanders, researchers have found the country's iconic kiwi bird probably descended from an ancestor that flew in from Australia.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2013
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Conservation 'tragedy' as endangered kiwis die in New Zealand zoo
Eight endangered kiwi birds have died from respiratory infections while being treated at New Zealand's Wellington Zoo, in what authorities said on Tuesday was a "tragedy" for conservation efforts.
Plants & Animals
Oct 1, 2013
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New study shows kiwi call in perfect harmony
(Phys.org) —A group of researchers at Victoria University studying the little spotted kiwi are uncovering surprising results about our national bird's behaviour.
Plants & Animals
May 1, 2013
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