An Australian diver who’s struck up a friendship with a Maori octopus over the past few months has recorded close-up footage of the sea creature preparing to go hunting. Jules Casey, who frequently ...

AgResearch claims two Maori Authorities want to go into business partnership with them to farm transgenic animals in New Zealand, and that some participants at hui want Maori human genes to be used.

Mythical animals are often thought to exist only in folklore, but some legends may have stemmed from real creatures.

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

All right. You know that old phrase about how corporations are people? Well, if corporations can be people, why not animals? Let's say whales. Wow. There you go. Sounds good to me. Now ...

In New Zealand, thousands of indigenous Maori are protesting the new conservative government's plans to review a treaty that was signed by British colonists and Maori chiefs almost 200 years ago.