In the late 19th century, news of a strange antipodean bird with beautiful tail feathers, orange wattles, and a long curved beak spread around the British Empire. To Māori, it was a tapu bird—a sacred ...

Male and female dusky pipefish look exactly the same in all but one aspect—males have a pouch for incubating eggs when they ...

For all their showiness, tree ferns are extraordinary survivors. They hold their secrets close—but now, scientists are ...

Mowing a blob shape into a field can dramatically help insects, research has found—and it’s better for pollinators than ...

Three pot plants, a barbecue and four bikes—we load up Toyota’s fully electric car for a classic southern summer roadie.

Great Mercury was one of the first sites of human habitation in New Zealand. Last year, a radical new public-private partnership sought to rid the island of pests. It was a unique operation, and the ...

All his life, Jay Kuethe has been a collector. When he was growing up in 1990s Britain, his immigrant Dutch parents gave him ...

Dogs wag their tails in all sorts of ways—side to side, up and down, round and round—as well as up high or down low. They use ...

Often, kapa haka teams order their piupiu in batches. This year, a newbie team from the East Cape decided to make their own—40 piupiu, all with individual designs—and debut them on the biggest stage ...

Plantation forests take up about seven per cent of New Zealand’s land area, mostly in the North Island. Now, researchers have mapped these forests using a combination of airborne laser scanning and ...

For eight years, Kiwi photographers have gathered the best images of our environment and society and submitted them to expert judgment and public scrutiny in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of ...

These are the questions that Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith raise and answer in Pātaka Kai (which means “pantry”). The term ...