The study's findings show mergansers arrived in the New Zealand region at least seven million years ago from the Northern Hemisphere, in a separate colonisation event to that which led to the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. On a remote island, a duck arrived hundreds of thousands of ...
During a joint expedition to the mountains of western Cuba, researchers uncovered a rare complete bone from a bird that lived between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago. The humerus, pulled from a ...
Europe's most endangered ducks are back on track. According to the European Commission, the Spanish Marbled ducks' population has more than quadrupled since 2009, going from a mere 20 breeding pairs ...
Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Alexander Verry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...
A new University of Otago-led study has uncovered the origins of a mysterious lineage of mergansers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Mergansers are riverine and coastal fish-eating ducks predominantly found ...