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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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.

New ancient DNA research on Adélie penguin poo in Antarctica shows how several species respond to environmental change over ...

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 ...

PENDLETON — New research from wildlife biologists shows poachers play a bigger role in the deaths of eagles, hawks and other birds of prey in the West than previously thought. Volunteers at the ...

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

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 ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...