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Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat
- J. Wilmshurst, A. Anderson, T. Higham, T. Worthy
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 3 June 2008
The pristine island ecosystems of East Polynesia were among the last places on Earth settled by prehistoric people, and their colonization triggered a devastating transformation. Overhunting… Expand
The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography
- M. Bunce, T. Worthy, +8 authors A. Cooper
- Biology, Geography
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 18 November 2009
The ratite moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) were a speciose group of massive graviportal avian herbivores that dominated the New Zealand (NZ) ecosystem until their extinction ≈600 years ago. The… Expand
A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact
- R. Holdaway, T. Worthy, A. Tennyson
- Biology
- 1 January 2001
Abstract We present an annotated working list of the bird species breeding in New Zealand during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, up to the time of human contact. New Zealand is defined as… Expand
Osteology of Leiopelma (Amphibia: Leiopelmatidae) and descriptions of three new subfossil Leiopelma species
- T. Worthy
- Biology
- 1 September 1987
Abstract Three new speeies of leiopelmatid frog are described from New Zealand cave deposits: Leiopelma waitomoensis n.sp., an offshoot of the L. archeyi/L. hamiltoni lineage, and Leiopelma markhami… Expand
Miocene waterfowl and other birds from central Otago, New Zealand
- T. Worthy, A. Tennyson, C. Jones, J. Mcnamara, Barry Douglas
- Geology
- 1 January 2007
Synopsis Abundant fossil bird bones from the lower Bannockburn Formation, Manuherikia Group, an Early‐Middle Miocene lacustrine deposit, 16–19 Ma, from Otago in New Zealand, reveal the “St Bathans… Expand
Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific
- T. Worthy, A. Tennyson, +6 authors R. Beck
- Geography, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 19 December 2006
New Zealand (NZ) has long been upheld as the archetypical example of a land where the biota evolved without nonvolant terrestrial mammals. Their absence before human arrival is mysterious, because NZ… Expand
Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis
The ratite moa (Aves; Dinornithiformes) were massive graviportal browsers weighing up to 250 kg (ref. 1) that dominated the New Zealand biota until their extinction approximately 500 yr ago. Despite… Expand
Relict or colonizer? Extinction and range expansion of penguins in southern New Zealand
- S. Boessenkool, J. Austin, +4 authors J. Waters
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 7 March 2009
Recent human expansion into the Pacific initiated a dramatic avian extinction crisis, and surviving taxa are typically interpreted as declining remnants of previously abundant populations. As a case… Expand
Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a primitive bird
The widespread view that Archaeopteryx was a primitive (basal) bird has been recently challenged by a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis that placed Archaeopteryx with deinonychosaurian theropods.… Expand
Descriptions and phylogenetic relationships of two new genera and four new species of Oligo‐Miocene waterfowl (Aves: Anatidae) from Australia
- T. Worthy
- Biology
- 1 June 2009
The Tertiary anatid fossils (Aves: Anatidae) from Oligocene and Miocene deposits in Australia are described. Most fossils derive from the Late Oligocene – Early Miocene (26–24 Mya) Etadunna and Namba… Expand
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