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African origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird revealed
![Adzebill skeleton on display in the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-02/news-nz-bird-adzebill.jpg?h=34e43602&itok=Rv7TgwaT)
Scientists have revealed the African origins of New Zealand’s most mysterious giant flightless bird – the now extinct adzebill – showing that some of its closest living relatives are the pint-sized flufftails from Madagascar and Africa.
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