In the northwest Pacific, a crushing 10 kilometres below the surface, a community of shellfish, worms and anemones is quietly ...

Judges have selected 69 images from more than 6000 entries that tell the story of an exceptional year in Aotearoa. Select five of your favourites to vote in the Ockham Residential People’s Choice ...

The fossilised fin of an ichthyosaur has given up an ancient secret: it seems the massive marine predators were very, very ...

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that in five decades of underwater exploring, filmmaker Andrew Penniket had encountered them only once. Oceans photographer Richard ...

It all flows, Togiaso says, from the principle that “we play for each other. You play for your teammate, your brother next to you.” Most of the team are Pasifika and Māori; Togiaso is Samoan.

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never been shown before: in luscious, three-dimensional detail.

For decades, scientists have been collecting brittle stars, or Ophiuroidea, a relative of the starfish, and storing them in museums and universities. Now, DNA analysis from thousands of these ancient, ...

Some, like clownfish, swap when there’s a gap in the social order. Others switch when they get to a certain size, when they’re looking for a mate, when the weather is hot, when the environment is ...

Lots of spiders are very good at one or two things. Stalking, maybe. Setting traps. Biting. But Steatoda nobilis, the invasive spider now spreading in New Zealand, has an arsenal of tactics—including ...