Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be ...

It’s been nine years since New Zealand set its Predator Free 2050 goal, to eradicate the most damaging introduced predators ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...

A fearsome-looking insect commonly referred to as “ winged wētā ” may look like a flying wētā, but it is not a wētā at all.

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

Southern Lakes Sanctuary is one of the largest landscape-scale predator control projects in Aotearoa, overseeing a consortium ...

The latest release of kiwis in New Zealand has boosted the endangered species' return to suburbs in the capital. It's part of ...

It’s hard to imagine that some creatures on Earth have survived for millions of years. While many species have come and gone, ...

A common weed has sparked concern after it evolved resistance to one of the world’s most common herbicides. Researchers ...

Million Years Ago 'Monster' Penguins the Size of an Average Human Dominated New Zealand’s Seas Sixty million years ago, a ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...