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

Dogs wag their tails in all sorts of ways—side to side, up and down, round and round—as well as up high or down low. They use ...

All his life, Jay Kuethe has been a collector. When he was growing up in 1990s Britain, his immigrant Dutch parents gave him ...

Photographer Erica Sinclair shot half of this magazine, occasionally with her children in tow—her daughter Maiea was happy to ...

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

She was sexually abused herself; she broke her leg and was left screaming on the ground for three hours, ignored; she started to have nightmares that she was being stabbed. She worked exhausting hours ...

For all their showiness, tree ferns are extraordinary survivors. They hold their secrets close—but now, scientists are ...

Royal spoonbills are thriving in New Zealand, with birdwatchers spotting their extravagant head feathers in more and more estuaries and lagoons. The population is now growing at a rate of 10 per cent ...

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

Una Cruickshank, Te Herenga Waka University Press, $35 ...

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 ...