Starting from the country’s main gateways, such as Auckland and Christchurch, these road trips offer the best chance to experience the wealth and breadth of New Zealand’s unparalleled landscapes.

And in place of apex predators like tigers, New Zealand had Haast’s eagle. Ever since a group of farm workers drained a swamp in the late 1860s and uncovered its buried bones, this eagle has ...

Haast’s eagle may have attacked moa like an eagle, but it would have fed on them like a vulture. A Lost World in the South Pacific. New Zealand’s wildlife evolved in splendid isolation.

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Even by the standards of New Zealand, which in the 1990s marketed itself as at “the edge of the world,” Haast is remote. The local school has just eight students.The nearest airport is a three ...

New Zealand, a land renowned for its stunning landscapes and diverse ecosystems, harbors tales of incredible creatures that once roamed its land. Among these extinct giants are the moa and Haast ...

New Zealand isn’t the biggest country in the world, but it’s surely among the most scenic. The rugged grandeur accounting for that distinction also makes it a unique challenge to traverse.

Before people arrived 700 years ago, the archipelago hosted an idiosyncratic ecosystem, nearly free of mammals. More than 200 bird species filled a food web all their own. Rather than cows or ...

A Haast's eagle hunts moa. John Megahan / PLOS Biology 2005 New Zealand has long been known as a place for the birds — quite literally. Before people arrived 700 years ago, the archipelago ...