Vertebrate Curator, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; birds, palaeontology, conservation & general natural history
Wellington City, New Zealand
Joined April 2016
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T rex of the sea discovered in long-misidentified fossils rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-t…
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Check out my latest article on moa de-extinction, which is out now in the Autumn issue of @Forest_and_Bird Magazine.
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Want to do a PhD @otago on climate impacts on #NZ vertebrates w/ @michel_knapp, @Lubbe_P, @ElineLorenzen, @TennysonAlan & me? It comes w/ fully funded scholarship & will investigate climate extinction risks using genomics & niche modelling. Please RT. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evold…
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A palaeontologist studying fossil fragments in Central Otago has identified a previously unknown, but now extinct, bat.
Tiny extinct bat found in NZ fossil record rnz.co.nz/news/national/5903…
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Nice to see the @odtnews covering our research on the St Bathans goose. You can read all about our research here in our @ConversationEDU article theconversation.com/meet-the…
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Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive
Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a palm-sized possum with a bizarre, elongated finger
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An earlier theory argued that the St Bathans goose represented the direct ancestors of the giant flightless Cnemiornis geese, implying this lineage had a very long history (at least 14 Mya) in NZ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… 7/13
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While many species of birds have been arriving in NZ throughout geological history, the ancestors of some of our large birds have only arrived here surprisingly recently - in the past 4-5 Mya - including takahe, Eyles' harrier & Haast's eagle theconversation.com/humans-r… 6/13
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The St Bathans goose is not closely related to the recently-extinct giant flightless NZ geese (Cnemiornis species) or their Australian cousin, the Cape Barren goose. Artwork by Paul Martinson/Te Papa CC BY-NC-SA. 4/13
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Welcome to the world Meterchen luti, the St Bathans goose that lived in subtropical New Zealand 14-19 Mya (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…), making it ten waterfowl species that lived around the giant palaeolake Manuherikia. Artwork by Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa CC BY-NC-SA. 1/13 🧵
Our new St Bathans Miocene 'goose' reveals a complex history of geese in Zealandia theconversation.com/meet-the…
The extremely dodgy past of Colossal's George Church... forbetterscience.com/2023/06… via @schneiderleonid
One of the world's biggest funders of palaeontology is Epstein's buddy George Church (he founded the $10 billion USD "de-extinction" company Colossal). Many palaeontologists work for Church on: mammoth, dire wolf, dodo, thylacine, moa, etc.: cnn.com/2026/02/19/politics/…
Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files Out of ‘Safety of Our Attendees’ uk.news.yahoo.com/dinosaur-c… via @@yahooNewsUK
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The largest extinct volant bird Pelagornis could not meet the energetic demands of skimming royalsocietypublishing.org/r…
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Don't forgot your fossil friends on Penguin Awareness Day. Here's the skull of Eudyptes warhami, an extinct crested penguin from the Chatham Islands. Its such an interesting species that it's features on a NZ coin!
Read more here:
fossilpenguins.wordpress.com…
