Last year, they were hit with a deadly virus. The year before that, starvation. What will this breeding season bring for the ...

Fifty-nine Christmases ago, 10-year-old Andrew Penniket unwrapped a snorkel, mask and flippers. It was a transformative gift.

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who announces the day. The bird who sounds the alarm. The ...

All around you, animals are building, burrowing or stealing dwellings for themselves and their families. For others, home is ...

On paper, Wellington city’s not looking too flash. But photographer Louis Elorfi Macalister finds life—loud, colourful, and ...

On page 54, Nic Low writes about a beach settlement at Moeraki. The sea is eating it, graves and taonga and all. Sheep and ...

In 2022, an extraordinary set of images surfaced at auction. Taken in Christchurch around a hundred years ago, they show a ...

The bone belonged to a songbird, but it didn’t belong to any existing New Zealand songbird, alive or dead, and so Elizabeth ...

For years, scientists have been using water samples to trace plants, microbes, animals and fungi via the invisible bits of ...

Since the 1850s, two per cent of marine mammal species have gone extinct. But if we look at the biomass—if we add up ...

In first-year philosophy we chewed over the theory that humans were most interested in watching water, fire, and sky. The ...

Almost all sponges live in the sea, “and they’re the kind that people know about”, as University of Otago palaeontologist ...