Behind the hills of Wellington city, the Capital Kiwi Project's land spans more than 23,000 hectares. The project has a permit to release 250 birds on the land, and 139 have been released so far. Last ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

There are many things we may never know about mammoths, but scientists are working to obtain a clearer picture of how and ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

Myna birds can mimic the human voice, and were introduced to New Zealand in the 1860s and by the mid 20th century they had ...

Von Sturmer, once a punk performer and lyricist for Kiwi band Blam Blam Blam, is a Zen Buddhist. His 300 prose poems here are inspired by ancient Zen lore, written as “kōan” (stanzas), each strictly ...

Once you arrive, a quick visit to the Oban Visitor Centre or DOC (Department of Conservation) Visitor Centre is a good way to ...

Animals have adapted their movements to suit their environments. On land, animals typically use legs, wings, or slithering ...