In the summer of 2015, in a remote valley of Fiordland National Park, two scientists discover fossil poo fragments underneath a limestone overhang. Analysis suggests the fragments are from moa and are ...

Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark and mean. Trying to control them, we’re realising, has always been a fool’s game. But we can’t stop now.

It was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned. Or you could succumb to drunken misadventure. Some people took one look at the place and quit on the spot. Others stuck it out ...

In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save many bird, reptile and ...

But more fickle are the memories, hearts, and minds of New Zealanders. Hendy and his team received death threats, which were ...

“How do we speak truth to power? Just as power pretends it has none. As if history has lapsed, exploitation has expired, as ...

ChatGPT can certainly spit out an essay in time for a deadline—but, reassuringly for those of us who write for a living, the ...

Look at the centre of the image above. Now slightly to the right. That’s a New Zealand jumping spider—one of a whole new ...

Richard Robinson and Bill Morris threw themselves into reporting their cover story on eels: icy streams, extreme slime, gear ...

Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Hundreds of species have hit on an elegant solution: find a nice juicy critter—and turn it into a zombie.

A new interactive tool illuminates the fraught world of the whale, overlaying tracking data for seven species with hazards such as noise and plastic pollution, ocean traffic and offshore construction.

A species of native fungi has been photographed glowing with bioluminescence - a fact that has previously eluded mycologists.