Myth busting the hype surrounding an American company’s bid to ‘‘de-extinct’’ New Zealand’s giant moa, has earned an Otago palaeogeneticist the Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize.

A Dunedin man responsible for two sex attacks puts it down to a couple of ‘‘poor decisions’’.

A Dunedin man who dragged a driver from a bus, bit a police officer and put on an obscene performance in the cells has been jailed for 16 months.