How to fix the Mackenzie Basin

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The bone people

Bill Morris toured the South Island listening to the stories of skeletons....

Horrible history

New Zealand has 123 statues of named people on outdoor public land. Over 2018 and...

Very hungry caterpillars

A common beehive pest could be redeployed to chew plastic bags instead of honeycombs. Canadian...

Crazy beast

This animal lived on the island of Madagascar 66 million years ago, a time when...

Whales catch their breath

Do coastal earthquakes affect whales? Until recently, the sum total of scientific knowledge on the...

Poison snack

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Inside the minds of fish

Exposure to a common herbicide can alter the minds of fish, researchers at the University...

No night vision?

Australia’s critically endangered night parrot may not be very good at seeing in the dark,...

One in a million

Almost all garden snail shells coil to the right-hand side of their bodies. You’ll probably...

Quiet, please

Dragonflies can’t hear, but they still don’t like noise. When Japanese and American researchers played...

The bone library

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

Adapt or die

The ability to change behaviour makes birds less vulnerable to extinction, according to a study...

Charting a new course

Ocean Mercier’s journey from physics to the science of her ancestors....

Vocal clues

The pitch of your voice is unique, whether you’re talking, screaming, shouting, or crying, according...

A most savage squabble

Scientists fight over old bones....

Regeneration

Regenerative agriculture is supposed to save us from climate change, freshwater pollution, soil erosion, drought,...

The skeleton crew

Old bones are a staple of museum collections, but only a handful of people in...

Aliens on Earth

Hundreds of millions of years ago, mantis shrimps evolved technologies we’re still trying to copy....

The people’s fruit

Feijoas have become a New Zealand emblem. So how did they end up in Aotearoa,...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
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