Male ruffs have the ability to eliminate excess sex hormones from their bloodstream. We often associate high testosterone ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Fewer than 40 New Zealand fairy terns survive - making it six times rarer than the kākāpō, which is often treated as the "poster bird" for our most endangered species.

Residents of a New Zealand town were furious after vandals destroyed the nesting grounds of dotterels, an endangered bird ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These ...

A striking image of a pūkeko in flight has seen Northland hunter and photographer David Towgood named winner of the Game Bird ...

A woman from New Zealand says in lawsuits that British author Neil Gaiman sexually assaulted her repeatedly when she worked ...

Indigenous peoples have been largely excluded from the federal government’s planning for the arrival of H5N1. When will this ...

With OMV set to announce unexpectedly good flows from its Pohokura field and Genesis buying in more coal, the tide is turning back to investment in fossil fuels. Shane Jones tells Jonathan Milne that ...

Kiwi handlers Helen McCormick and Kelsi Thompson, of the Gallagher Kiwi Burrow in Taupō, perform a quick health check on one of the birds during last year's translocation. Photo / Danielle ...

It hasn’t taken long for The Bird Dance to catch on in harness racing trainer Antonia Storer’s stable. A 10-year-old ...