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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 ...

Richard Robinson and Bill Morris threw themselves into reporting their cover story on eels: icy streams, extreme slime, gear that still smells of smoked eel. The big lesson? “Never wear rings while ...

The Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka—University of Otago smells of old wood and older rocks. The walls are lined with geological maps and paintings of extinct creatures—giant penguins, strange ...

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 ...

Day three of oral submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill and Karlo Mila is nervous as hell. She’s been up since 4.30am, writing. Was still writing in the cafe downstairs. As her friend Ala’imalo ...

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.

Picture a map of New Zealand. Now delete the land. What you’re left with is a vascular system pumping fresh water: swampy hearts, lakes, rivers, thousands of trickling capillaries. This is the ...

What you’re looking at is a slice of the roiling, chaotic stuff between stars—the magnetised dust and gases that make up the plasma of our Milky Way, modelled on a supercomputer at unprecedented scale ...

In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save many bird, reptile and invertebrate lives. That’s not possible in urban nature reserves, where there’s a ...

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.