70 million-year-old prints are the first dinosaur footprints recognised in New Zealand and the first evidence of dinosaurs in the South Island.

AgResearch plans to grow genetically modified grass created to cut the greenhouse gases produced by cows.

We invented the commercial bungy and, arguably, the aeroplane, but a recent study suggests New Zealand is struggling to keep up in the invention stakes.

Study shows only granddaughters are likely to benefit from having their paternal grandmothers involved in their early lives.

A woman was thrown out of a meeting on the North Shore's beach poisonings when she hurled objects at a Department of Conservation speaker.

A dog which died after visiting a Coromandel beach tests positive to the same toxin thought to have killed five dogs in Auckland.

A series of Herald graphics explores the science behind the tsunami that devastated Samoa.

Public health officers are warning parents to closely watch children - and look out for toxic sea slugs - on Hauraki Gulf beaches.

Sunbathing is known to cause skin cancer - but it may also help people survive when they get it, scientists are reporting.