The fight to eradicate the yellow-legged hornet involves poison-puffing spears, spacesuits, Christmas tinsel, hectic chases ...

Many women, says McConnochie, are worried about slowing others down or being left behind on group trips. Alone, those ...

Does an elephant really need to be that massive? Why aren’t there any giant insects? Why did animals in New Zealand evolve to ...

No account of statistics or arms-length analysis of policy can quite get to the truth of the matter: that the criminal ...

Waka ama came over the Pacific with the people who became Māori. In this new land, the people found tōtara, kauri—trees big ...

His first penguin influx came in 2017, when New Zealand’s coastlines were hit by the most extreme marine heatwave in a ...

How deep do seabirds dive, and how fast do they go? Faster and deeper than we realised, according to a new study of New ...

For decades, the southern New Zealand dotterel had been disappearing, bird after bird killed on the nest, mostly by feral ...

Now is the time of mushrooms. In autumn, fungi are a form of wildlife that you barely have to go any distance to see—but you ...

Five hundred years ago, people starting building pā all over northern New Zealand—fortifying their settlements with rows of ...

For decades, an image of Robert’s hand was thought to be the oldest surviving x-ray in the country. But last year, a scan of ...

Splashing around in a New Zealand river? This map shows your risk of coming down with campylobacteriosis, a gastro illness ...