Several more invasive yellow-legged hornets — including two additional queens — have been discovered in Auckland, along with two small nests found just 100...
Scientists at Curtin University have discovered a new bee species in Western Australia named Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer, dubbed the ‘Lucifer bee’ for the devil-like...
Scientists observing humpback whales in Antarctic waters have captured extraordinary footage of the giant mammals blowing bubbles in a perfect Fibonacci spiral while hunting...
Five patients have been hospitalised in Queensland after ingesting the rat poison brodifacoum.
ABC reports that the authorities do not know the source of the cluster...
Horticulture and job opportunities in Northland will get a major boost with the completion of Te Waihekeora Reservoir, a large water storage project south...
Police and Auckland Council are investigating after a mother reported witnessing a park worker at Shakespear Regional Park striking and injuring pūkeko with a...
A researcher at Glasgow University has already designed a phone for dogs and a play dating system for parrots.
Scientists are using interactive digital devices...
The Government plans to overhaul rules governing the country’s conservation estate, potentially opening up one-third of the nation's land to expanded commercial use.
Prime Minister...
The Government has announced a sweeping overhaul of planning rules under the Resource Management Act (RMA) aimed at tackling New Zealand’s infrastructure deficit and...
The blobfish, once ridiculed for its lumpy, gelatinous appearance, has made a remarkable comeback by winning New Zealand’s Fish of the Year contest, organised...
The Department of Conservation (DOC) is calling on dog owners and organisations to take urgent action after nine kiwi were killed in Wharengaere Bay,...
Venezuelan kayaker Adrián Simancas survived a terrifying encounter when he was accidentally engulfed by a humpback whale while paddling with his father in the...
Craig Manders of New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against Connecticut-based African Portfolio, alleging negligence after his wife, Lisa Manders, was killed by a...
An outbreak of avian botulism in Otago has resulted in the deaths of around 1,000 waterfowl at the Waikouaiti wastewater treatment plant.
Otago Fish &...
Colossal Biosciences is editing genes and working on artificial wombs, its CEO has said.
Texas-based Colossal Biosciences aims to bring back from extinction the woolly...
Elephants in India suffered population bottlenecks 100,000 years ago and then 2,000 years ago. Scientists believe the most recent event was because they became...
A chlamydia epidemic is pushing Australia’s iconic koalas closer to extinction, experts claim, with wildlife hospitals like Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Queensland at the...
The latest New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (NZEPA) Board are tasked with the oversight of a regulatory institution that has been backsliding for decades.
Overlapping...
The Government has announced that during the next three months it will take Cabinet decisions on new regulations to remove the ban on genetic engineering...
The decision has caused outrage among animal rights campaigners.
Residents of Limburg-an-der-Lahn have voted to wipe out every single pigeon in the German town, claiming...
Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Auckland, with similar demonstrations taking place across Nelson, Whakatāne, Christchurch, and Tākaka, to oppose the coalition Government’s Fast-Track...
An Auckland-based international rugby player and social media content creator, Matt Jurlina, who faced penalties after posting a video of himself speeding a powerboat...
Scientists hope the findings can help identify protective mutations and increase the odds for humans to survive the disease.
Wolves in the irradiated Chernobyl Exclusion...
A hunter-led conservation project has removed hundreds of deer from a remote part of the Kaimanawa Forest Park, helping improve the forest’s health, Hunting...
Parliament has passed legislation repealing the Natural and Built Environment Act and the Spatial Planning Act as part of the Government’s 100-day plan, RMA...
Scientists have found that toxins produced by microscopic algae killed 250 elephants in Africa.
Around 250 African elephants were killed by neurotoxins produced by microscopic...
A judge trying the producer has warned that the “grotesque” case details were enough to cause “nervous shock”.
An acclaimed UK crocodile expert and BBC...
The renowned land formation is full of “ironic” species, the president declared.
US President Joe Biden called the Grand Canyon “one of Earth’s nine wonders”...
