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

The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

Nature is a vast and extraordinary culmination of living organisms. When one truly delves into this realm of thought, it ...

Fewer than 40 New Zealand fairy terns survive - making it six times rarer than the kākāpō, which is often treated as the "poster bird" for our most endangered species.

Residents of a New Zealand town were furious after vandals destroyed the nesting grounds of dotterels, an endangered bird ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

The question of whether cats are a menace for birdlife is under debate again, so just how bad for biodiversity are our ...