Waka ama came over the Pacific with the people who became Māori. In this new land, the people found tōtara, kauri—trees big ...

The fight to eradicate the yellow-legged hornet involves poison-puffing spears, spacesuits, Christmas tinsel, hectic chases ...

Does an elephant really need to be that massive? Why aren’t there any giant insects? Why did animals in New Zealand evolve to ...

His first penguin influx came in 2017, when New Zealand’s coastlines were hit by the most extreme marine heatwave in a ...

For decades, the southern New Zealand dotterel had been disappearing, bird after bird killed on the nest, mostly by feral ...

Five hundred years ago, people starting building pā all over northern New Zealand—fortifying their settlements with rows of ...

Splashing around in a New Zealand river? This map shows your risk of coming down with campylobacteriosis, a gastro illness ...

Now is the time of mushrooms. In autumn, fungi are a form of wildlife that you barely have to go any distance to see—but you ...

How deep do seabirds dive, and how fast do they go? Faster and deeper than we realised, according to a new study of New ...

Marine ecologist Irene Middleton photographs one of her favourite dive spots, Wellington’s south coast. Astonishingly full of ...

For a year, the coastline north of Kaikōura was home to a unique albino kekeno pup affectionately called Golden Boy.

We began work on our cover story thinking we were documenting the end of a species. We’d known for decades that the pukunui, ...