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How to shoot a unicorn

In the early 1970s Wade Doak published a book that would become the bible for...

Worth saving

Every autumn, our family give away something like 60 kilograms of feijoas, bagging the fruit...

Written in the stars

For decades, scientists have been collecting brittle stars, or Ophiuroidea, a relative of the starfish,...

Stealth attack

The fossilised fin of an ichthyosaur has given up an ancient secret: it seems the...

The sea around Antarctica is much saltier than it should be—and that’s a bad thing

As sea ice melts in a warming climate, the Southern Ocean should be getting fresher....

Bird puzzle: solved

For decades, the extinct endemic bird known as the Hodgens’ Waterhen has flummoxed taxonomists—since the...

Life, deeper than we ever imagined

In the northwest Pacific, a crushing 10 kilometres below the surface, a community of shellfish,...

Little penguins, big success

A penguin colony in a small town on the east coast of the South Island...

Humans are tipping the planet off its axis

Imagine a fly landing on a spinning balloon—the balloon will tilt ever-so-slightly, shifting the fly...

Edible Weeds Handbook

Andrew Crowe, Penguin, $35, September 2...

Case Studies: A Story of Plant Travel

Felicity Jones and Mark Smith, Massey University Press, $85, October 9...

The tripmakers

Together, Cameron Lacey and Marie Crowe are delivering a New Zealand-first therapy: psilocybin, the hallucinogen...

New rules for a new world order

By Shamubeel Eaqub, Chief Economist at Simplicity...

Going deep

Kaiya Elmes is working hard to protect and preserve the underwater world she treasures....

Chasing ice

For a fleeting spell each winter, ponds and dams across Central Otago freeze—and the chase...

Magic flora

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never...

Rise of the noble false widow

Lots of spiders are very good at one or two things. Stalking, maybe. Setting traps....

Making gullies great again

A story that proves we can change the world, one manky strip of city at...

We loved hāpuku too much. Now we have a second chance.

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that...

Devilfish!

Man versus beast, in a public swimming pool....

The Hollows Boys: A story of three brothers and the Fiordland deer recovery era

Peta Carey, Potton & Burton, $39.99, October 1...

“We Play for Each Other”

Joe Harrison photographs an extraordinary league team....

The big swap

Why stick with being male or female your whole life when you could have a...

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