For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

In the waters around New Zealand - as many countries - animals including sea birds, dolphins, penguins and sea lions are routinely ending up in commercial fishing nets along with the intended catch.

I looked straight into the eyes of something you would not expect in a forest: some 300 pounds of NZ sea lion female! New Zealand's nature and wild landscapes always had this magic spell on me.

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...