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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists who spent nine years birdwatching in Wellington ecosanctuary Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne report that birds visit the ...

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