More links and websites
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Bone rings reveal slow growing giant moa
A story about recent research on moa, from the Natural History Museum, London. The site includes links to other moa-related information and images.
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Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms
This site gives worldwide information on organisms that have recently become extinct.
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Extinct birds of New Zealand
A resource from the Forest and Bird Kiwi Conservation Club for children. It explains extinction and lists New Zealand’s extinct birds.
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Extinction
This page is on the ‘Peripatus’ website. It discusses the concept of extinction, with a survey of some important extinction events.
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Extinction symposium
This 1997 symposium, held at the American Museum of Natural History, included a summary of information on extinctions, with New Zealand examples.
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Late Pleistocene extinctions
This page from the Illinois State Museum discusses the late Pleistocene extinctions, with a timeline of the spread of humans and the extinction of megafauna.
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The sixth extinction
This page is from the website of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
More suggestions and sources
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Gibbs, George. Ghosts of Gondwana – the history of life in New Zealand. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2006.
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Tennyson, Alan, and Paul Martinson. Extinct birds of New Zealand. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2006.
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Wilson, Kerry-Jayne. Flight of the huia: ecology and conservation of New Zealand’s frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004.
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Worthy, Trevor H., and Richard N. Holdaway. The lost world of the moa: prehistoric life in New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.
