'Old Mother Goose' challenges a 14-million-year lineage story in New Zealand
The discovery of a rare fossil goose in an ancient Central Otago lake shows the evolutionary history of Aotearoa New Zealand birds is much more dynamic than once thought, a University of Otago–Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researcher says. Associate Professor Nic Rawlence, Director of the Otago Paleogenetics...
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The discovery of a rare fossil goose in an ancient Central Otago lake shows the evolutionary history of Aotearoa New Zealand birds is much more dynamic than once thought, a University of Otago–Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researcher says. Associate Professor Nic Rawlence, Director of the Otago Paleogenetics Laboratory, is co-author of a new paper which analyzes the fossil and its origins.
Originally published at Phys.org
