For the first time in more than six decades, an endangered bird has returned to a small New Zealand Island. A total of 40 tīeke, or saddlebacks, were reintroduced to Rakitū Island on Aotearoa (New ...

Te pua o te Rēinga, Aotearoa's only fully parasitic flowering plant, was rediscovered on New Zealand's North Island.

One of the most picturesque stretches of the New ... Tutukaka coast, and it's a very powerful piece of land," Kempton says. "The rock has been identified as one of the oldest parts of New Zealand ...

“He slowed down on the road near Ōtanewainuku and was rewarded with a kiwi encounter many New Zealanders dream of,” wildlife officials said in the release. “In a video sure to tug at on heart strings, ...

The decline in seaweed creates more space for animals ... New Zealand and found sponges are not always the most dominant organism. In fact, mesophotic ecosystems along New Zealand’s coast ...

Wind plays a crucial role in shaping New Zealand’s climate by distributing rainfall and temperature across the islands. Regions exposed to westerly winds, like the west coast of the South Island, ...

Scientists have discovered over 100 new marine species off the coast of New Zealand. This groundbreaking discovery was ... which has two nets, the team collected animals living close to the sea floor.

It has a bulbous head and loose, flabby skin and lives in the deep sea, mainly off the southeastern coast ... on a New Zealand research vessel snapped a photograph of the rarely seen animal.

A 6.7 earthquake hit off the coast of New Zealand. According to USGS, the earthquake hit around 2:43 p.m. on Tuesday, local time. USGS reports the earthquake was 10 km deep, 159 km from Riverton ...

"It makes no sense that these two animals should be at the same place and time to encounter each other," Constantine told NYT. "We have no idea how they found each other." Still, it was a "calm ...

The blobfish, described as the world's ugliest animal ... mainly off the southeastern coast of mainland Australia, the Australian island of Tasmania, and New Zealand. The blobfish topped the ...

Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was declared the world's ugliest animal. But now it has been voted New Zealand's "fish of the year" in ... They are found mainly off the coast of southeastern ...