New Zealand is well known for its Bird of the Year ... sticky slime out of small projections near its mouth, trapping its prey. It then uses its jaws to start cutting the prey up, while injecting ...

New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human ...

Pascale Lubbe currently receives funding from the Marsden Fund. Michael Knapp has received funding from The Royal Society of New Zealand (Rutherford Discovery Fellowship). Nic Rawlence receives ...

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great changes. The landscape of today bears little resemblance to that of a ...

Royal spoonbills are among several new species that have crossed the Tasman and naturalised in New Zealand. JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa ...

Farming” behaviour is very unusual in the non-human world. As lyrebirds forage, they cultivate the soil and shore up their own food sources.

They start as a downy ball of fluff on a remote New Zealand island. Then they fledge across the Pacific. Only a handful have ever been found again.

“We’re too new.” Crew members use their birds of prey, including hawks, falcons and occasionally owls, to harass gulls and drive them from crowded areas, including the Boardwalk. The trained ...

You might expect an extroverted, spotlight-loving 9-year-old girl would only have eyes for one role in The Little Mermaid—the ...

Secret lives of ancient Antarctic penguins and seals uncovered Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica’s Ross Sea coast, sh ...

You might expect an extroverted, spotlight-loving 9-year-old girl would only have eyes for one role in The Little Mermaid—the lead of Ariel. But not Indy Yelich. “I was like, ‘I don’t want to be Ariel ...