Lead author and PhD candidate Nicola Sullivan, from Plant and Food Research, said spiders could help increase fruit ...

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An article published in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology found there had been no research on the role spiders play in ...

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

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Afascinating discovery has emerged from New Zealand’s South Island, where researchers have identified an entirely new genus ...

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