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Our Blue Backyard: Life beneath waves
In Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, you can find one quarter of the world's seabird species - and around 20 per cent of its whale and dolphin species.
In Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, you can find one quarter of the world's seabird species - and around 20 per cent of its whale and dolphin species.
Fog harvesting, floating dairy farm and smog towers... Andrew Stone outlines some clever and inspiring innovations that we might hear a bit about in 2017.
As if Australians didn't have enough pesky species to worry about, a new study finds their country is effectively crawling with feral cats.
When it comes to trapping our bird-killing pest predators, a little bit of potent ferret stench could be the missing ingredient.
Those visiting Aussie beaches this summer better be careful as tiny, invisible and deadly jellyfish are on a southern invasion.
This week, the Herald takes a look at Kiwis who are dedicated to helping our animals. Today Jamie Morton talks to Project Jonah's Daren Glover.
The secret sex life of one of New Zealand's strangest native species is going under the microscope in a new summer-long study.
First one, then another. Bite! Slap! Bite! Before you know it, mosquitoes are descending from the skies to disrupt your backyard summer
NIWA marine ecology technician Mark Fenwick has observed the dramatic changes to Kaikoura's crayfish habitats.
The feathered tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been discovered, miraculously preserved in amber.
Can you spot the penguin? If you're struggling, stop squinting and take in the big picture.
They're usually found inside the guts of fish: but glow-in-the-dark bugs also look great on canvas.
Children learn new words using the same method as robots, psychologists say.
COMMENT: How tragic would it be if we could only experience tui, kereru (wood pigeons) or piwakawaka (fantails) as stuffed specimens in museums?
A dramatic video shows honey bees surrounding a spider before they eventually paralyse and overpower the arachnid.
Android users are more honest than iPhone users, researchers have found, in a study revealing what our choice of smartphones say about us.
Tash Joyce had a very special delivery waiting in her post box.
Check out these entries in the People's Choice category of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition run by the Natural History Museum in London. You can see the full gallery and vote on their website.
A powerful (and hungry) jaguar used its jaws to skull-drag a huge caiman.
Canterbury University marine ecologist Dr Sharyn Goldstien has been on the ground investigating what the freshly-raised coast at Kaikoura has meant for ocean ecosystems.
Some children suffer from completely tangled hair, which, as their parents will attest, can't be combed at all. Scientists now have the answer.
Scientists have revealed the extent of uplift on the South Island's northeastern coast - observing that in some places the land was raised by two metres.
The latest earthquake again prompted reports of animals behaving strangely just before the main shock hit. What does science say?
While post-election US has already been compared to an episode from The Walking Dead, researchers have worked out what a zombie apocalypse would look like.
Genetic evidence suggests that man's best friend has been enjoying food scraps from humans since the earliest days of living together, even adapting to digest changes in human diet.
A clever tracking innovation, combining the use of drones with radio tags and dubbed DroneCounts, has scooped a major conservation award.
Horror parasites brainwash their victims, driving them to kill themselves. And they're in your backyard.
For the first time, scientists will construct a detailed picture stretching back more than 500 years of how we've affected our most important fisheries species - potentially genetically.
Scientists will reconstruct more than 20,000 years of NZ's ecological history to better understand how our species will respond to climate change.