Maori may have been first to reach Antarctica ... He saw unfamiliar shapes in the waves: tresses waving at the surface, animals that dove to great depths and seas of pia, the Polynesian name ...

Native Maori took a leading role in efforts to revive the iconic kakapo. “People came together because they knew the bird was bigger than anything else.” A kākāpō named "Yasmine" is ...

Available on iOS and Android, the sticker app includes 200 different Māori icons, from emotions to food, to sports and animals associated ... created by Te Puia, a Maori arts and culture ...

[See Photos of the Early Maori Site in New Zealand] You may like ... shell fragments and the bones of animals found in a stone-lined underground oven, or hangi, on the site will undergo scientific ...