'Swat team' to rescue whales
A "swat team" of whale rescue experts has undertaken an intensive three-day course in freeing whales that have become tangled in ropes and nets.
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A set of fossilised bones kept for more than half a century in the dusty storerooms of the Natural History Museum in London belonged to the earliest known dinosaur to roam the land.
Catriona MacLennan: NZ can drive ending of animal testing
"Why doesn't NZ take a bold step and complement its clean, green image by becoming the first country in the world to ban testing on animals?" asks Catriona MacLennan.
Editorial: Endangering animals for recreational gain repellent
Editorial: The use of animals in such a context should not win the approval of the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee.
Party pill tests on animals in doubt
Manufacturers of party pills could be prevented from testing their drugs on animals if they cannot prove it is worth the pain they could potentially cause.
Shark takes long way home
A shark that swam from New Zealand to Fiji has returned home for Christmas, rounding off an 11,000km odyssey and amazing the scientists who tracked her journey.
NZ legally challenges Japanese whaling
New Zealand has joined Australia in questioning the validity of Japan's whaling for scientific purposes in the Southern Ocean, says MP Murray McCully.
Website to get tails wagging
Animal-loving science students design network to bring pets and their owners together.
GE milk breakthrough
New Zealand scientists have genetically engineered a cow that may be the first in the world to produce hypo-allergenic high-protein milk.
Alexander Gillespie: Shark policy trails other fisheries
Wasteful and cruel shark-finning is prohibited in many countries, but NZ allows it - with provisions, writes Alexander Gillespie.
Far from home: NZ's great whites
Data shows New Zealand's great white sharks don't stay in local waters - they enjoy a trip to the tropics.
Sam Judd: What's killing our killer whales?
Sam Judd looks at the effect of plastic and toxins on marine life - particularly killer whales.
Welly Zoo: 'R.I.P Seun'
The Wellington Zoo's six-year-old male giraffe Seun died today after an operation to cure a painful hoof condition.
Should NZ grow genetically modified crops?
What are the benefits, if any? And is it inevitable? Two views from opposite sides of the argument from Agram chief executive Graeme Peters and university researcher Professor Jack Heinemann.