Worried about shark attacks off the pristine beaches in Australia's tropical north?

Before NZ's Parliament had even finished the last line of Pokarekare Ana after passing the Marriage Equality Bill, my inbox started to blink with missives from friends back in Australia.

Female seahorses have got this pregnancy caper worked out. They place their eggs, sometimes hundreds or thousands, into a special pouch in the male's stomach and let him do all the hard work while they go about their business unencumbered by kids.

An online campaign raising money to catch a Whangarei cat killer looks likely to surpass its $2000 target.

They're now more than 4 months old but three Nepalese panda cubs at Hamilton Zoo are still without names.

Larger than normal rats - some the size of kittens - are being reported following a long dry spell that has caused a population boom.

Thousands of birds perished in the black tide that followed the MV Rena's grounding. A year and a half on, we check on the recovery of the disaster's forgotten victims.

Nakuru the giraffe spent nearly six days in a box as she crossed the Tasman by sea to find her new home in Melbourne.

Christchurch's Orana Wildlife Park has welcomed two new South African girls. The arrival of two-year-old Lusi and three-year-old Kiana take the park's cheetah population to 13.

A three-metre tall giraffe bound for Australia from New Zealand has been caught up in the search for a solo sailor in rough seas off Victoria's far east coast.

A Taranaki sharemilker says an outbreak of facial eczema is hitting cows hard and fast.

Franklin Zoo keeper Helen Schofield failed to follow her own safety guidelines on the day she was killed by an elephant in its enclosure, a coroner has found.

A man has been kicked by a calf while trying to help it and the blow sent a 55-year-old man tumbling 10 metres down a bank.

Pet owners are being warned that identity microchips in their precious animals may be faulty after flaws were detected in more than 1,000 chips.

Human error put a Hamilton Zoo keeper at risk from a female tiger, an investigation by the Ministry of Primary Industries has found.

In June last year, Maxwel Johnson beat his one-year-old dog so severely the dog lost an eye, several teeth, and suffered a broken jaw.