An endemic and previously unknown species of shorebird has been identified from fossils found in Central Otago, New Zealand.
Artist’s concept of Hakawai...
An international group of scientists led by the University of Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the genome of the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)...
According to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, fjords absorb approximately 18 million tones of organic carbon each year, equivalent to 11 percent...
Archaeologists from the University of Auckland have found a large section of an East Polynesian sailing canoe dating to around 1400 CE on New Zealand’s...
Protulophila, a microscopic marine animal thought to have been extinct for 4 million years, has been found living in seas around New Zealand.
This scanning...
A new study published in the journal Molecular Ecology reveals the glacial and post-glacial history of the kea, Nestor notabilis.
A juvenile Kea, Nestor...
An international group of paleontologists reported the discovery of a fossil seabird species that lived in what is modern New Zealand during the early...
A 19 to 16-million-year-old fossil of a kiwi-like bird unearthed at St Bathans, New Zealand, suggests that the kiwi is not a dwarf version of a distant...
A tiny freshwater crab Amarinus lacustris with three eyes collected from a New Zealand river represents a unique malformation that has never been described...
A population of false killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, in waters off northeastern New Zealand developed a relationship with bottlenose dolphins to...
Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have analyzed more than fifty fossilized feces of the South Island Giant Moa, Upland Moa, Heavy-footed Moa and...
Marine biologists from Taiwan and New Zealand have identified four new species of deep-sea fish in the anglerfish genus Chaunax.
The Yellowspot frogmouth,...
Biologists have described three new fungi species in the genus Gymnopus from New Zealand.
Gymnopus ceraceicola (Jerry Cooper)
The newly discovered species,...
A team of marine researchers from New Zealand has used remote operated vehicles to collect specimens of sea pen previously unknown to science.
Acanthoptilum...
A team of biologists has made the first complete description of the spade-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon traversii, a whale species previously known...
An international team of scientists has sequenced mitochondrial genome of first New Zealand settlers, and revealed a surprising degree of genetic variation...
