The giant moa, an extinct group of flightless birds native to New Zealand, once reigned as one of the tallest and most ...

Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding ...

The 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist of 16 titles (four books in each category) will be announced on 5 March.

Explore the real-life inspirations behind legendary creatures like mermaids, Kraken, Pouakai, dragons, unicorns, and Roc.

Damien Wilkins is on track to win the $65,000 fiction prize for his novel Delirious. CK Stead, at 92, is the oldest author on ...

The judges have announced the 43 books on the longlist for the Book Awards, with the winners to be announced on 14 May during ...

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless ...

“These fungi very closely resemble berries.” “Until now, we’ve had no evidence that any bird consumes them – including moa.” There are believed to be at least nine species of ...

The Rotary Club of Pāpāmoa will meet at 5.30pm on January 23 at Gordon Spratt Park to celebrate the opening of the new shelter, pending seating installation. The accessible shelter at Gordon ...

After a year of rising bird flu cases among people in the United States, researchers are keeping a watchful eye on the H5N1 virus to slow further spread. Since early 2024, the country has recorded ...

A SEVENTEEN pop-up store has officiall opened at the Mall of Asia on Wednesday. But it's not just any SEVENTEEN pop-up store, it's an “Artist-Made Collection by SEVENTEEN” pop-up store. Located at the ...

But because truffles grow underground, birds need to be large in order to dig them up—moa, the researchers noted, would have made perfect dispersers, except that humans hunted them to extinction ...