The cat is out of the bag

Rob Suisted figured he was in for an easy assignment. His subjects had other ideas....

Deep-sea sperm bank

Some female sharks and rays living in the deep ocean can store sperm inside their...

A rude spelling error

Kūmarahou is a shrub that bursts into yellow blossoms in September, and plays an important...

Flu tracker

A citizen-science project asking New Zealanders every Monday whether they had flu symptoms in the...

What’s in a name?

Why did scientists name our iconic forest giants Agathis australis when the trees have been...

New origin story for seals

The soft mudstone cliffs of south Taranaki hold clues to creatures past. Fossil collectors unearthed...

Mining with microbes

Bacteria could mine rare-earth elements from space rocks, according to a study conducted aboard the...

Peer pressure

New friends ARE more important than family traditions when it comes to finding food, according...

Mind matters

It’s April 15, 2020. Ashley Bloomfield reports 20 new cases of COVID-19 at the 1pm...

Mount Humdinger

“To an outsider it may seem like some kind of climber’s secret society in which...

Foraged wood

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

Lizard boom

When rats are away, the reptiles will play. Twenty years after rats were eradicated from...

Bee aware

In search of nectar, a bumblebee must manoeuvre through an obstacle course of foliage—a surprising...

Secret lives of cats

Over several years, Heidy Kikillus attached tiny GPS collars to cats and recorded their movements....

Good as gold

Bluff Marine Radio operator Meri Leask has been voluntarily answering boaties’ calls for the past...

The Penguin sinks

A steamer goes down off Wellington....

The weed eaters

Edible plants grow throughout our towns and cities: in verges, margins, berms, parks and empty...

The greening of the red zone

During the two devastating earthquakes of September 2010 and February 2011, land in the suburbs...

A tale of two shipwrecks

Life in the subantarctic is difficult enough for those who arrive prepared. In 1864, castaways...

Afterburn

Wildfires were rare in Aotearoa prior to humans. That changed, but it is climate change...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
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