Extinct #moa consumed colorful truffle-like #fungi in New Zealand https://phys.org/news/2025-01-dna-extinct-moa-consumed-truffle.html paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0440

"In other places, #truffle spores are dispersed by #mammals such as squirrels. #NewZealand does not have such mammals; the #truffles there have traditionally relied on #birds to serve as a disperser. But because truffles grow underground, birds need to be large in order to dig them up—moa would have made perfect dispersers"

#POVinci in real life

You wouldn’t want to miss out on this ANCHORs
Take a detour with HORI7ON at ANCHOR HIGH

#Concert #Detour #MOA #POV #Art
#HORI7ON #호라이즌 #Photography #Style

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DByjUGMyax3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

How do you reboot the mall experience?, Mall of America's Jill Renslow provides insight on the largest mall in America

https://zurl.co/tVp1c

#growth #innovation #therebootchronicles #deandebiase #BuildBuyBorrow #MallOfAmerica #MOA #America’sDreamMall #Hotels #BlackFriday #Patriots #Eagles #NFL #Nickelodeon #CoCoMelon #Sustainability #Technology #Amazon #Walmart #Kroger #HallOfFame #Change #Entertainment #Attractions #SMB #ShopTalk #Hospitality #AmusementPark #Retail #CustomerExperience #CX

Gotta love some chaotic winners encore cam vibes. And I'm totally here for the blue sweater moment.

[4K] 투모로우바이투게더 'Over the Moon' 뮤직뱅크 1위 앵콜직캠(TXT Encore Facecam) @뮤직뱅크(Music Bank) 241115
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kleH03WfaSk

À Jours de Jeux 2024 à #Bayeux !
Ping @sgtpepere

@jollyorc : running #MOA at a game festival in the French countryside

#reutlingen und #Tuebingen heute mobil ohne Auto #moa !

@dgfitch @njvack @isaackuo @nyrath

I overlooked this really in-depth review of #RomanTelescope #OGLE #MOA and the hunt for rouge planets. Well worth the read.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rogue-planet

Welcome Back to MOA, UBC Students!

It's that time of year when the leaves begin to change, laptops are dusted off and students once again fill the UBC campus. Whether your are new to UBC or a returning student, make MOA a part of your university experience.

UBC Students (and staff and faculty) receive free admission to the Museum all year round! Simply present your valid UBC ID card (or staff card) at the admission desk.

#Kākāpō, not #kiwi, are the true ancient species of #Aotearoa, say paleontologists
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-kkp-kiwi-true-ancient-species.html

A synopsis of the Early #Miocene St Bathans Fauna from New Zealand https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699524000524

"until now, we thought that birds like kiwi and #moa were among the oldest representatives of #NewZealand fauna. We are now realizing that the Kākāpō, tiny New Zealand #wrens and #bats, and even a bizarre freshwater limpet, are the real ancient New Zealand natives"

[Canada] Iconic totem pole being relocated f. Stanley Park to UBC Museum of Anthropology
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/iconic-totem-pole-being-relocated-from-stanley-park-to-ubc-museum-of-anthropology-1.7003422

Visitors to Vancouver / Victoria interested in Indigenous art, crafts, history ... these are exceptional:

Vancouver: Museum of Anthropology at UBC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Anthropology_at_UBC

Victoria: First Peoples gallery at Royal British Columbia Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_British_Columbia_Museum#First_Peoples_gallery

New Zealand’s endangered flightless birds are retreating to 'moa graveyards' – and it could save them from extinction | Discover Wildlife
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/new-zealand-flightless-birds-retreating-to-moa-graveyards

#Extinction
#NewZealand
#FlightlessBirds
#Birds
#Moa
#MoaGraveyards

New Zealand’s Flightless Birds Are Retreating To Extinct Moa Graveyards [spatial analysis and fossil record analysis]
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https://www.iflscience.com/new-zealands-flightless-birds-are-retreating-to-extinct-moa-graveyards-75303 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02449-x <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314972111 <-- shared paper
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[facetious maybe, who can resist a 50lb drumstick?]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #NewZealand #weta #kiwi #takahe #moa #polynesia #maori #colonialisation #extinction #habitats #humanimpacts #hunting #habitatloss #ecology #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #remote #elevation #flightless #birds #endangeredspecies #endangered #RuahineRange #MountAspiring #model #modeling #fossil #fossilrecord #palaeontology #paleoclimate #demographics #populationpressure #spatialdynamics

Ghosts of species past: shedding new light on the demise of NZ’s #moa can help other flightless birds https://theconversation.com/ghosts-of-species-past-shedding-new-light-on-the-demise-of-nzs-moa-can-help-other-flightless-birds-228362

Ecological dynamics of moa extinctions reveal convergent refugia that today harbour flightless #birds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02449-x

Scientists reconstructed patterns of extinction for 6 moa species... all collapsed and converged on the cold, isolated mountains... These happen to be the same sites where the last of #NewZealand’s #FlightlessBirds can be found today.

#MOA your time has come:

https://youtube.com/shorts/vE1OF0AYgmI

Today i learned

Among these species, individuals ranged in size from as big as a turkey to larger than an ostrich; some stood as tall as 3 metres (10 feet) and weighed as much as 250 kg (about 550 pounds)

https://www.britannica.com/animal/moa

#ConfederatedTribes of the #WarmSprings Reservation of #Oregon #WarmSpringsTribe filed a petition with the Oregon Department of #FishAndWildlife asking it to repeal or amend the rule implementing the August 4, 2023 #Tribal Memorandum of Agreement #MOA that authorized off-reservation hunting, fishing, trapping & gathering by Confederated Tribes of #GrandRonde #GrandRondeTribe.

https://www.legalreader.com/confederated-tribes-of-warm-springs-asks-oregon-department-of-fish-and-wildlife-to-repeal-agreement-harming-tribal-sovereignty/

@Mehrad
im using #Moa engine

https://moae.sbs