In a significant discovery that reveals New Zealand’s epic biodiversity, researchers identified a 19-million-year-old ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

Updated | A massive bat was discovered near a historic mining town with a population under two dozen people called St. Bathans in New Zealand's South Island.The 16- to 19-million-year-old bat's ...

Magpies may be considered Aussie immigrants, but new research reveals that their relatives lived in Aotearoa New Zealand 19 ...

The parrot’s bones were found near St Bathans on New Zealand’s South Island, where fossil deposits are filled with creatures from the early Miocene, a period that spanned 19 million to 16 ...

More information: Trevor H. Worthy et al, A new species of Manuherikia (Aves: Anatidae) provides evidence of faunal turnover in the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand, Geobios (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j ...

The bird was identified thanks to a pair of leg bones that were found fossilized in ancient clay in St. Bathans, New Zealand, back in 2008. Over a decade later, ...

“Our 23 years of research at St Bathans has transformed our understanding of how non-marine vertebrate life in New Zealand looked around 20 million years ago during the Early Miocene era ...