Ten years after a bold attempt to save the last megapodes of the Pacific islands, hundreds of the birds have been found living and breeding. The discovery doubles the number of malaus, as the ...
There are some animals you look at and wonder: How in the world did they evolve? One such bird is the megapode. This is a bird that, to carry on its species, creates a nest that incorporates materials ...
The Pacific's last megapode - a bird with large feet that uses hot volcanic ash to incubate its eggs - has been rescued from the brink of extinction, researchers said. Dr Dick Watling, an independent ...
Bird enthusiasts will be disappointed to know they were born millions of years too late. Paleontologists from Flinders University in Australia have discovered five extinct megapode birds—among them, a ...
A young person interested in ecology should be pleased to see a recent announcement in Species, the newsletter of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN, the World Conservation Union. The Megapode ...
The Pleistocene epoch (2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago) was a time of ecological upheaval in Australia. The climate fluctuated between warmer/colder and wetter/dryer periods, humans made ...
A recreation of the giant brush-turkey, at right, is shown next to a kangaroo and one of its modern brush-turkey relatives to demonstrate its size. Composite by Elen Shute; with photos by Kim Benson, ...
Ten years after a bold attempt to save the last megapodes of the Pacific Islands, hundreds of the birds have been found living and breeding. The discovery doubles the total number of malaus, as the ...
It has been described as a "giant flying turkey" the size of a grey kangaroo by Australian scientists. It is actually an extinct species of megapode bird - an ancient cousin of the modern Malleefowl, ...
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