Gruesome bounty

When the 70 kea beaks slide out of the ancient cloth salt bag onto a...

Wearing birds

The skin and feathers of this muff once belonged to a little spotted kiwi....

Foraged wood

When Juliet Arnott came across a pile of red-painted timber labelled ‘Firewood’ in the Christchurch...

The bone library

Displaying animal skeletons in museums is just one of many reasons for preparing bones. Museums...

Turned into glass

A victim of the eruption of Vesuvius surprised researchers....

The 230-year-old fish

When this orange roughy hatched, European navigators were still colouring in their map of the...

Seven steps

An Otago man out for a walk made a significant palaeontological discovery....

Light work

Revolutionary designer John Britten redesigned the racing bike from scratch....

The music of Mars

A violin reprises the ANZAC experience of war....

A bird in the hand

Māori kept kākā as pets—and Judas parrots....

Hungry for rights

A Kiwi suffragette’s defiant stand for women in the United Kingdom....

Hooked

It’s the Middle Ages. Genghis Khan presides over the largest contiguous empire the world has...

The plant hunter

William Colenso was a poor specimen of the clergy, but he found redemption in botany....

Odd man out

At the 1960 Olympic Games, the runners lining up for the 800-metre final all wore...

Hoodwinked

A sunfish with a big secret....

Bait and switch

To catch an octopus, pretend to be a rat....

Garden remedy

Mother Aubert’s homemade medicine....

Guiding light

Cavers of yesteryear used carbide lamps for illumination—occasionally with explosive results....

Disposable cutlery

Scientists believed they had found an ancient civilisation, but it was more like plastic forks....

Glass half full

Waikato’s eponymous brewery was rescued from the edge of financial ruin—twice. Then it burned down,...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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