Post by L Roebuck on Jan 13, 2009 9:40:01 GMT -5
Extinct bird's droppings yield details of pre-human New Zealand
Droppings of a giant extinct bird, buried beneath cave floors and rock shelters for millennia, have yielded a mine of information about pre-human New Zealand.
Ancient DNA and palaeontology researchers from Universities of Adelaide, Otago and the New Zealand department of conservation came forward with their analyses of plant seeds, leaf fragments and DNA from the dried faeces (coprolites) to start building the first detailed picture of an ecosystem dominated by giant extinct species.
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Droppings of a giant extinct bird, buried beneath cave floors and rock shelters for millennia, have yielded a mine of information about pre-human New Zealand.
Ancient DNA and palaeontology researchers from Universities of Adelaide, Otago and the New Zealand department of conservation came forward with their analyses of plant seeds, leaf fragments and DNA from the dried faeces (coprolites) to start building the first detailed picture of an ecosystem dominated by giant extinct species.
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