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Trevor Worthy

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Worthy is author or co-author of numerous research papers about prehistoric life in New Zealand. For the book
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since 2013. In May 2019, he ended his 30-year research association with Te Papa at protest to the
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since 1991, but in 2005 his funding was cut by the Foundation. From 2005 to 2009, he was at the
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from 2009 to 2011, back at the University of Adelaide during 2012, and has been at
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collections associated with Trevor Worthy
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For years, Worthy has been involved in the excavation of Miocene fossils (the
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Tertiary fossil waterfowl (Aves: anseriformes) of Australia and New Zealand
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People associated with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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bones, and the first known fossil land mammal from New Zealand.
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from the University of Waikato in 2011. He was at the
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frog species from cave subfossils: the Aurora frog (
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University of Adelaide
moa
D. L. Serventy Medal
Paleozoologist
Flinders University
Thesis
Tertiary fossil waterfowl (Aves: anseriformes) of Australia and New Zealand
Doctoral advisors
Alan Cooper
moa
Broadwood
Northland
Whangarei Boys' High School
BSc
MSc
University of Waikato
Victoria University of Wellington
leiopelmatid
Leiopelma auroraensis
Markham's frog
Waitomo frog
long-billed wren
Scarlett's shearwater
Niue night heron
Northland skink
Fiji
Viti Levu giant pigeon
Viti Levu scrubfowl
Viti Levu snipe
giant Fiji ground frog

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