New Zealand introduced stoats to control rabbits, but scientists now say the predators helped push native birds into one of the world’s biggest extinction crises

When New Zealand imported stoats from Britain in the late 1800s, the goal seemed simple: to control the sharp increase in the ...
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When domesticated rabbits go feral, new morphologies emerge

"In particular, relaxed functional demands in habitats that are free of large predators, such as Australia and New Zealand, might drive body size variation, which we know drives cranial shape ...