Decades ago, red admiral butterflies all but abandoned Auckland city. Now, united by two retirees and a tolerance for ...

Ta-da: a jaunty bird taking a walk, looking like he’s about to belt out a Pingu honk. Decades later, McCahon paints a ...

It’s a cloudless Sunday afternoon and the sidelines at Huntly Rugby Club are packed for the junior women’s first league game of the season. This is a family day out for the west side of town—the ...

To shoot the feature on our rarest native forget-me-not, Brennan Thomas had clambered around Hawke’s Bay mountains in the chilly pre-dawn. He’d documented a nursery in Taradale, and people tending the ...

The first Europeans to reach Sāmoa—aboard three Dutch vessels in 1722—reported that the locals who paddled out to them were dressed from waist to heel in fringes and “a sort of artistically made silk ...

Big blue comeback After being hunted to less than three per cent of their original population by commercial whalers, blue whales are once again being spotted around mainland New Zealand. Some 370 ...

For several years, kōtare, our native kingfishers, have been turning up at West Auckland rehab centre BirdCare Aotearoa with a mysterious affliction: mouths laced with tiny, almost translucent worms. ...

When Louis Macalister first met the Huntly crew in our story on page 52, they were riding dirt bikes—hooning through parks and public spaces, and hacking people off with the noise and disruption. Good ...

Picture the moa. A flightless feathered giant, reminiscent of an emu or cassowary. Over the last decade, genetic and skeletal evidence has begun to trace its family tree back to the age of the ...

Fifteen years after kakaruwai were brought to Dunedin’s Orokonui Ecosanctuary, a new study shows the tiny robins are doing so well that they have booked up every bit of real estate and are now kicking ...

In the world of academic publishing, there has been no more enjoyable read this year than a recent paper out of Sweden titled ‘Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel’. Published by Geology Today, ...