An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...

When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

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

It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

Feral species that prey on New Zealand’s birdlife have caused havoc across both islands, and more than 80 per cent are now ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird ...

and highlighted the island’s booming bird population, which includes the nearly extinct white head and the descendants of the three kiwi sent to the island in the 1970s. The view from the ...

“New Zealand has been using it since the 1950s, supposedly to protect bird populations, and yet kiwi have now been extinct in some places and 50 per cent of kea were killed in recent poison drops in ...

From kiwi spotted on CCTV in Wellington backyards ... the biggest threat to the flightless, iridescent blue birds. The national takahē population now numbers around 500, with annual growth ...

Birds were abundant, and included the now extinct moa and koreke / quail, as well as weka, kererū, kākā, kiwi in the forest, and a variety of waterfowl and freshwater fish in the streams. Māori used ...