New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

A new study has lifted the lid on five species of root-lesion nematodes living in maize crops across New Zealand—and suggested the existence of a hitherto-unsuspected cryptic species ...

For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

The giant moa, an extinct group of flightless birds native to New Zealand, once reigned as one of the tallest and most impressive avian species in the world. Standing up to 3.6 meters (about 12 feet) ...

A risk assessment by the Department of Conservation looked at 1145 species of birds, bats, lizards, and frogs, insects and ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

New Zealand’s Tahuna Glenorchy has been officially certified a Dark Sky Sanctuary, marking it as the fifth International Dark ...

A new study has lifted the lid on five species of root-lesion nematodes living in maize crops across New Zealand - and suggested the existence of a hitherto-unsuspected cryptic species. The article, ...

Scientists discovered the 1-foot-long animal while aboard a submersible several miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. Take a look.

Naturalist, wildlife educator and photographer Joy Marzolf will be at the West Falmouth Library on Wednesday, February 13, for a Joys of Nature travel talk focused on “New Zealand: Penguins, ...

From the near-extinct, flightless kakapo of New Zealand to Australia’s flying foxes dying in intense heatwaves and South ...