Flight tests

It’s not a squirrel, or a bat, but a dinosaur that acted like all three....

The power of poo

Wherever penguins and seals wander on the Antarctic peninsula, biodiversity hotspots spring up in their...

Walk like a shark

When spider monkeys, honey bees, or sharks are foraging for food, they’ll use a pattern...

Frog apocalypse

Chytrid fungus is the Genghis Khan of the amphibian world: it has spent the past...

Living under a rock

It’s been alone for two million years, during which time it lost the ability to...

Learning to speak

Eating grains may have given rise to human speech, say Swiss researchers. The change from...

I spy for science

A citizen-science project to spot Otago skinks will help a Dunedin PhD student collect valuable...

Born this way

Three fathers, two mothers, one father and two mothers—all are naturally occuring parent combinations for...

Eyes on the prize

Bare-knuckle fighters take on the law....

The road goes ever on and on

New Zealand has a national trail because of a story Geoff Chapple wrote 25 years...

Fossilised fish flock together

Fish have been forming shoals since at least the Eocene Epoch, according to this fossil...

Submerged

Scouring Taupō’s silty bottom in search of spearfishers....

Buried treasure

For palaeontologists, the dark diatomite layers of Foulden Maar are like the shelves of a...

Goodwill hunting

Spearfishers are taking aim at freshwater pests instead of dwindling marine species....

The wreck of the penguins

Why did hundreds of dead kororā—little blue penguins—wash up on beaches around the country two...

The leg shop

What happens when you lose a limb?...

The longest walk

Last October, Chris and Jorinde Rapsey and their two children set off from Cape Reinga...

A park a day…

We’re increasingly stressed, and so are our kids. Their rates of anxiety have surged by...

What’s the point of museums?

Most people don’t understand what a museum is for. Unfortunately, nor do some of the...

Cecil King’s Hut

Once, trampers emerged from the bush on the Wangapeka to the offer of a cuppa...

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Mar - Apr 2026

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