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Forward march

Acquiesce. It’s the name of an anaesthetic used to knock out tank-reared kingfish so that...

The time traveller

Before we asked him to write about Mangahouanga Stream—a spot heaving with fossils, including the...

Love is in the air

Dunedin Wildlife Hospital spends November absolutely chocka with hoiho chicks. Arriving to document the babies,...

Family project

When we were looking for a writer to introduce Jay Lichter’s fungi photography there was...

On the wild side

While shooting our aquaculture feature, underwater photographer Richard Robinson found it disconcerting to see kingfish...

All in their heads

Starfish seem like creatures of many limbs—but it turns out they’re just heads. In a...

Te reo takeaways

In recent years, as you’ve gone about your life—watching TV, at work or school, listening...

Dialling up the dialect

The release of Disney’s Moana in te reo was a landmark for Māori language revitalisation....

Tell tails

Almost all of our 124 endemic lizard species are in trouble, but it seemed that...

We’re getting better at joining the infection dots

What you’re looking at is the story of an infection. Specifically, how the bacterium Citrobacter...

Sleep easy

For decades we’ve been told eight hours of sleep is the sweet spot for brain...

Avian flu: waiting in the wings

Since 2021, as COVID-19 spread among the world’s humans, birds have been ravaged by a...

Kids in mud

Auckland dad Harry Scott (Ngāi Tahu) teaches outdoor ed to young kids—although, really, they’re teaching...

End Times

Rebecca Priestley, Te Herenga Waka University Press, $35...

Murray Ball: A cartoonist’s life

Mason Ball, HarperCollins, $45...

Gone for good

First, do no harm. Second, push for better....

Intensive care

Hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguins, on mainland Aotearoa are tipping towards extinction. This breeding season began...

The lost tribe of Fiordland

Bare footprints, remote campfires, people who slip into the bush when approached: for more than...

The forever flowers

Why have so many Pacific cultures turned to artificial flowers? And what’s lost—or gained—in doing...

Fish out of water

People and livestock gobble so much fish that the seas soon won’t keep up. Is...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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