Temba, a male chimp at Wellington Zoo, died on Saturday night after a fight with the alpha male of the group.

Pandas don't want no scrubs. They have a higher success rate of having cubs if they are coupled with a bear they love.

Scientists have demonstrated how robots can learn much like tots do.

Cool and aloof, the cat will never be known as man's best friend. But its solitary nature may be the key to its long life, say scientists.

WATCH: Video shows national icon has a rather nasty mean streak.

A kiwi destroying a robin nest and causing the death of the chicks in it has been caught on camera by a Victoria University of Wellington researcher. The footage, taken at Zealandia over two consecutive nights, shows a little spotted kiwi pushing the robin nest down a slope, pecking the chicks, and returning the next night to tear the nest apart. Supplied/Victoria University

Currents are shifting, temperatures are climbing and the availability and dynamics of nutrient upwelling is changing.

Scientists investigating the rising spread of drug-resistant bugs in our homes have thrown up a hairy potential culprit: our pet pooches and moggies.

That fossil also happened to come from the same deposits as the world's oldest penguin, Waimanu

Tui are renowned for their repertoire of songs yet we're only just beginning to find out how urban environments are influencing their singing.

Conservationists were left to hedge their bets when it came to saving a critical population of one of New Zealand's most endangered bird species.

A major 1080 poison offensive succeeded in wiping out 95 per cent of rats and 85 per cent of stoats in targeted forests around the country.

Research suggests our cheeky kea may not be such a bird-brain after all.

The spuds Matt Damon's stranded astronaut Mark Watney grew in The Martian may be closer to science fact than science fiction, say Kiwi and Australian researchers.

When it comes to birds, the ladies are just as capable of glamming up their style as the blokes are - just only when they need to.

A new documentary will show the moment a marine biologist was bitten in the head by a shark in Fiordland.

The phenomenon of 3D printing has given us printed guns, printed cars and printed hamburgers - now it might have ushered in the age of printed hair.

Ian Tarei is waiting. After countless nights sitting in the bush, in the dark, in the middle of nowhere, it's something he's become familiar with.

New Zealand scientists are getting up close and personal with giant humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean. Geoff Cumming explains why.

Designer babies is getting closer to reality as scientists in China claim they're the first to use gene editing to create "designer dogs."

Cryonics: The preservation of animals and humans at ultra-cold temperatures is booming in the US, notwithstanding the $100,000 minimum price tag.

It's been called the "Genghis Khan" of the ant world, and for good reason.

Vulnerable native species may face further risk as climate change makes more of our country hospitable to stray cats.

A team of researchers discovered the hog-nosed rat during a expedition in a remote and mountainous area of Indonesia two years ago.

The teeth of a dog may provide new insight into how humans migrated across the world's largest ocean to New Zealand, and where they came from.

Dr Tom Trnski, head of natural science at Auckland Museum thinks that our marine systems could recover if humans back off.

It is notoriously difficult to get pandas to mate, so cloning might be the next best option.

Who we find attractive isn't determined by some complex genetic construct, but simply by our own personal experiences.

New Zealanders are being called upon to help save our national icon by reporting kiwi sightings to conservationists.

The tiny native bird, which is only slightly larger than a house sparrow, features in a new study in the leading scientific journal Animal Behaviour