In the northwest Pacific, a crushing 10 kilometres below the surface, a community of shellfish, worms and anemones is quietly ...

The fossilised fin of an ichthyosaur has given up an ancient secret: it seems the massive marine predators were very, very ...

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that in five decades of underwater exploring, filmmaker Andrew Penniket had encountered them only once. Oceans photographer Richard ...

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

The city lies in a 90-kilometre-long, 40-kilometre-wide oval-shaped depression known to geologists as the Hamilton Lowland. Within the lowland is the Hamilton Basin—a large alluvial fan, like a rimmed ...

It all flows, Togiaso says, from the principle that “we play for each other. You play for your teammate, your brother next to you.” Most of the team are Pasifika and Māori; Togiaso is Samoan.

For decades, scientists have been collecting brittle stars, or Ophiuroidea, a relative of the starfish, and storing them in museums and universities. Now, DNA analysis from thousands of these ancient, ...

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never been shown before: in luscious, three-dimensional detail.

Some, like clownfish, swap when there’s a gap in the social order. Others switch when they get to a certain size, when they’re looking for a mate, when the weather is hot, when the environment is ...

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

A penguin colony in a small town on the east coast of the South Island is thriving due to the conservation efforts of Ōamaru Penguins (formerly Ōamaru Blue Penguin Colony).

We are in what I would consider a hinge moment and living through a major regime change. The peace-driven global order established after the world wars that has defined geopolitics, trade, economics ...