The harlequin gecko does many things that seem high risk. It stays stock still whenever it’s cold. It lives in extreme slow ...

For all their showiness, tree ferns are extraordinary survivors. They hold their secrets close—but now, scientists are ...

In the late 19th century, news of a strange antipodean bird with beautiful tail feathers, orange wattles, and a long curved beak spread around the British Empire. To Māori, it was a tapu bird—a sacred ...

Mowing a blob shape into a field can dramatically help insects, research has found—and it’s better for pollinators than ...

Male and female dusky pipefish look exactly the same in all but one aspect—males have a pouch for incubating eggs when they ...

Plantation forests take up about seven per cent of New Zealand’s land area, mostly in the North Island. Now, researchers have ...

In November 2024, on the wind-whipped shores of Ōtūwharekai, the Ashburton Lakes, retired farmer John Evans was checking his ...

Often, kapa haka teams order their piupiu in batches. This year, a newbie team from the East Cape decided to make their ...

Great Mercury was one of the first sites of human habitation in New Zealand. Last year, a radical new public-private partnership sought to rid the island of pests. It was a unique operation, and the ...

Three pot plants, a barbecue and four bikes—we load up Toyota’s fully electric car for a classic southern summer roadie.

Dogs wag their tails in all sorts of ways—side to side, up and down, round and round—as well as up high or down low. They use ...

The tragic trajectory of deep sea bottom trawling just got a lot weirder.