New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints, bones and even teeth. But, while insightful, these artifacts don’t always paint a complete picture of an ancient creature ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

“some account of the chief peculiarities of the Fauna of New Zealand.” It so happens that the series of animals of our antipodean colony in the Zoological Society's Gardens is at the present ...

Follows the trials and tribulations of the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital as conservationists seek to rescue, rehabilitate and release native New Zealand animals.

But, before the arrival of humans, New Zealand did not have any mammals lumbering around and snacking on truffles—the island’s only native mammal species are bats and marine creatures.