This is a nice post by Christopher Taylor at Catalogue of Organisms, a kiwi studying spider systematics (and what's not to love about that; cephalopods be buggered!) on the species of moas that used to live in New Zealand. I didn't realise they'd be forest dwellers. It's a worthwhile blog to get the feed for.
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> cephalopods be buggered
Yeah, go on, piss off the people who agree with you about everything else :-)
I wasn't. I was pissing off PZ...
Then you'd better get to the NZ Ecological Society conference at the end of this year. "The conference features a major symposium titled "Feathers to Fur: the ecological transformation of Aotearoa". This is an update of 21 years of progress on the topics that make New Zealand unique, following on from the 1986 conference "Moas, Mammals and Climate" which was published in a special issue of New Zealand Journal of Ecology in 1989."
I spent several days caving with Trevor Worthy examining a new cave system jam packed with the fossils of extinct NZ species, including a number of moa species. Just awesome.
Pictures? Pictures!
Ta very much for the link!