Story: Extinctions

More links and websites

• 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.

• Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms

  This site gives worldwide information on organisms that have recently become extinct.

• 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.

• Extinction

  This page is on the ‘Peripatus’ website. It discusses the concept of extinction, with a survey of some important extinction events.

• Extinction symposium

  This 1997 symposium, held at the American Museum of Natural History, included a summary of information on extinctions, with New Zealand examples.

• 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.

• The sixth extinction

  This page is from the website of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

More suggestions and sources

• Gibbs, George. Ghosts of Gondwana – the history of life in New Zealand. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2006.
• Tennyson, Alan, and Paul Martinson. Extinct birds of New Zealand. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2006.
• Wilson, Kerry-Jayne. Flight of the huia: ecology and conservation of New Zealand’s frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004.
• Worthy, Trevor H., and Richard N. Holdaway. The lost world of the moa: prehistoric life in New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.