One spring, Annette Lees was given a bat monitor for her birthday—a black and olive plastic gadget with knobs for adjusting volume and frequency and a speaker to announce when a bat was nearby. It is ...

It arrived in a wooden cabinet, each drawer of it a family: Calliostomatinae, Volutidae, Turbinidae. One of every kind of ...

Most journalists I know feed their interview recordings to an AI called Otter, then go through each transcript word-for-word, ...

Laura Ryan was studying the visual systems of fish when a spate of shark attacks at her favourite Perth surf spot got her thinking—why do these apex predators confuse tasteless humans with delicious ...

I set a deeply unimpressive personal record. The drive to work, which usually takes 45 minutes, stretched out to an interminable 77. I sat at one intersection for more than half an hour, listening to ...

Craig Mckenzie was surprised that New Zealand Geographic didn’t pick this photograph as part of our 2017 feature on kākāriki ...

Richard Robinson met a Polish woman, Ania Matuszczak, diving at the Poor Knights. Now, the couple live in Auckland, and have ...

Get out of the city this summer and you’re bound to glimpse a kāhu. The powerful, clever native hawks are revered by those ...

If it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and if nature is red in tooth and claw, why are so many animals nice to each other—and us?

I'd like to start by thanking everyone who has responded to our We Need Your Help appeal. On Thursday we ticked over 1000 new subscriptions, putting us just 1000 short of our goal. Hundreds of readers ...

For all those who have responded by subscribing for grandchildren or overseas relatives or to repay long and embarrassing debts, thank you. Thank you also for those who chose to donate instead, or ...

For all those who read my first article laying out the circumstances for New Zealand Geographic, thank you. Some 500 people took out new subscriptions, others renewed. Many also offered advice, which ...