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The harlequin gecko does many things that seem high risk. It stays stock still whenever it’s cold. It lives in extreme slow ...

Male and female dusky pipefish look exactly the same in all but one aspect—males have a pouch for incubating eggs when they ...

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Often, kapa haka teams order their piupiu in batches. This year, a newbie team from the East Cape decided to make their ...

Mowing a blob shape into a field can dramatically help insects, research has found—and it’s better for pollinators than ...

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The tragic trajectory of deep sea bottom trawling just got a lot weirder.

Three pot plants, a barbecue and four bikes—we load up Toyota’s fully electric car for a classic southern summer roadie.

It was all very modern and amusing, but a lot could hinge on Terman tests. They were intended to predict whether a student, ...

Plantation forests take up about seven per cent of New Zealand’s land area, mostly in the North Island. Now, researchers have ...

These are the questions that Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith raise and answer in Pātaka Kai (which means “pantry”). The term ...