The curious case of a huddle of Aussie invaders that long managed to blend in with our native little blue penguins has just taken another twist.

Digby Livingston and Stephen Franks suggest the way to protect indigenous species is to farm them.

An Auckland biodiversity student is part of a team of scientists researching and monitoring humpback whales and their migration in the Cook Islands.

When you take out apex predators - such as sharks - from the ecosystem, you mess with nature and it disrupts the food chain, often having a negative impact on other species, writes Sam Judd.

The Environment Minister said the protection laws would be too legally complicated.

Stuffing wool in a shark's nose suggests smell is vital for navigation.

If I had been given one wish as a child, it would have been that the Tasmanian tiger wasn't extinct. To me, extinction was a tragedy.

A giant squid made its way into Japan's Toyama Bay on Christmas Eve, treating onlookers to a rare sighting of the magnificent creature.

Scientists have demonstrated how robots can learn much like tots do.

Cool and aloof, the cat will never be known as man's best friend. But its solitary nature may be the key to its long life, say scientists.

WATCH: Video shows national icon has a rather nasty mean streak.

A kiwi destroying a robin nest and causing the death of the chicks in it has been caught on camera by a Victoria University of Wellington researcher. The footage, taken at Zealandia over two consecutive nights, shows a little spotted kiwi pushing the robin nest down a slope, pecking the chicks, and returning the next night to tear the nest apart. Supplied/Victoria University

Currents are shifting, temperatures are climbing and the availability and dynamics of nutrient upwelling is changing.

Scientists investigating the rising spread of drug-resistant bugs in our homes have thrown up a hairy potential culprit: our pet pooches and moggies.

That fossil also happened to come from the same deposits as the world's oldest penguin, Waimanu

Women are less likely to get top jobs in companies that already have women in senior positions, according to analysis of 20 years of data.

Michelle Olbricht assumed her cats Ash and Ellie were home bodies, with little appetite for exploring the world but boy was she wrong.

A major 1080 poison offensive succeeded in wiping out 95 per cent of rats and 85 per cent of stoats in targeted forests around the country.

Research suggests our cheeky kea may not be such a bird-brain after all.

The spuds Matt Damon's stranded astronaut Mark Watney grew in The Martian may be closer to science fact than science fiction, say Kiwi and Australian researchers.

When it comes to birds, the ladies are just as capable of glamming up their style as the blokes are - just only when they need to.

A new documentary will show the moment a marine biologist was bitten in the head by a shark in Fiordland.

The phenomenon of 3D printing has given us printed guns, printed cars and printed hamburgers - now it might have ushered in the age of printed hair.

Ian Tarei is waiting. After countless nights sitting in the bush, in the dark, in the middle of nowhere, it's something he's become familiar with.

With the population decreasing at a rate of 2 per cent a year, what will it take to turn the tide?

The Herald's science writer Jamie Morton on this week's scientific breakthroughs.

New Zealand scientists are getting up close and personal with giant humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean. Geoff Cumming explains why.

Designer babies is getting closer to reality as scientists in China claim they're the first to use gene editing to create "designer dogs."

Cryonics: The preservation of animals and humans at ultra-cold temperatures is booming in the US, notwithstanding the $100,000 minimum price tag.