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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 ...

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.

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

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

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.

You all would have seen it - the poster detailing the fish of New Zealand's waters in every fish and chip shop in the country. You may not have realised that each and every one of those fish had been ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

In 1972 a number of heavy titanium spheres, about twice the size of a basketball, dropped out of the sky and landed in paddocks across Ashburton. But was it Aliens? An elaborate hoax? No. It was ...

Lyttelton was hit harder than most by the Christchurch earthquakes - particularly the Lyttelton Museum. But now it's back - triumphantly, we may say! - with a little help from its friends, past and ...

Auckland-based company Buckley Systems has developed and manufactured a machine which could help treat the most difficult cancers. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) delivers targeted radiation to ...