A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the 1860s, magpies are known for their territorial dive-bombing during the ...

These findings suggest Zealandia had a far greater diversity of songbirds during the Early Miocene than in the Holocene (past 11,000 years). The legacy of Miocene climate cooling. Why did these ...