MOTAT is striking a balance between the past and the present with a new exhibition called Hautū Aunoa Autopilot.

In 1993, Steven Spielberg made the blockbuster film Jurassic Park, an adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel by the same name. The thesis was that DNA could be extracted from blood which was extracted ...

A cetologist who has been researching Cook Islands whales for the past three decades says she is proud of the indigenous leaders for taking a stand for the conservation of to’orā (whales) across the ...

The Bounty Islands jut out of the water like giant granite fins. Steep and sheer, with no greenery in sight. Covered instead by a mottled white – guano or bird poo from the tens of thousands of ...

Ocean Beach used to process lambs, a record of 20 000 in one day, but now it’s gullies and troughs run with seawater, not blood. Home to the New Zealand Abalone company and Manaaki Whitebait it’s ...

Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock ...

Journalist Kate Evans and presenter Claire Concannon discover a world of snapping shrimp, singing whales and barking John Dory. Researchers Professor Craig Radford and Dr Jenni Stanley are uncovering ...

Sponges evolve at "super speed", marine biologists at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University have discovered—and that's great news for our seas. As founding editor Kennedy Warne writes in Issue 129, ...

A high-tech search of the seabed near Pātea has found an unexpected bounty of reefs teeming with life, alongside a zone targeted by a would-be seabed miner. The sonar survey by the National Institute ...

Bonnie Harrison reads the New Zealand Geographic feature about Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu/the Correspondence School—a place for kids who are bullied, anxious, or profoundly out of step with the ...

Author and documentary filmmaker Bill Morris takes us back in time in his new book The Road to Gondwana – in search of the lost supercontinent. Aotearoa New Zealand is just one fragment of this giant ...

The fifth planet from the sun – Jupiter – is the closest it’s been to earth since 1963. And, Nasa’s Dart spacecraft has crashed into an asteroid that was travelling at 22 and a half thousand ...