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Trained observation

In first-year philosophy we chewed over the theory that humans were most interested in watching...

Where the bone people began

On page 54, Nic Low writes about a beach settlement at Moeraki. The sea is...

Jingle shells, jingle shells…

Ned the snail, whose discovery made international news in 2025, is heading into the new...

Two years

On the road before the clean running of an EV makes up for the emissions...

Want native birds? This fuchsia is by far your best bet

Scientists who spent nine years birdwatching in Wellington ecosanctuary Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne report...

A single tiny bone suggests bowerbirds once lived in Aotearoa

The bone belonged to a songbird, but it didn’t belong to any existing New Zealand...

A melting pot of mozzies

In 2019, scientists asked the public to catch and freeze mosquitoes, then post them to...

The spiderweb that caught a sheep

For years, scientists have been using water samples to trace plants, microbes, animals and fungi...

How did the dairy cow get its spots?

Most dairy cows in New Zealand are Friesians—the ones with black spots dappling white backs...

How to renovate the trashed seafloor? Start with fake horse mussels

Horse mussels are massive. Given a chance, the shellfish can grow to almost half a...

The weight of what we’ve lost

Since the 1850s, two per cent of marine mammal species have gone extinct. But if...

Omnibird

Giselle Clarkson , Gecko Press, $44.99...

New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 years of photography in Aotearoa

Edited by Athol McCredie, Te Papa Press, $90...

How to stand alone

King’s Counsel Sally Gepp on the frustrating, high stakes, necessary work of environmental law....

Huge news for sponge lovers

Almost all sponges live in the sea, “and they’re the kind that people know about”,...

All that you can see is blue

Fifty-nine Christmases ago, 10-year-old Andrew Penniket unwrapped a snorkel, mask and flippers. It was a...

“It’s just you and your dog.”

Every year, the finest sheep dogs and handlers in New Zealand and Australia compete for...

Forty names for kākā

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who...

Maverick

How an audacious young pilot pulled off an aviation first....

How to dig a better hole

For many Māori, archaeology has a bad name, with treasures removed to museums, stripped of...

There’s no place like home

All around you, animals are building, burrowing or stealing dwellings for themselves and their families....

Life in the dying city

On paper, Wellington city’s not looking too flash. But photographer Louis Elorfi Macalister finds life—loud,...

Silent Spring

Last year, they were hit with a deadly virus. The year before that, starvation. What...

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