Last year, 9838 possums were killed throughout New Zealand and checked for tuberculosis, all turning up clean.

They have already shown that they enjoy tea parties, so it should perhaps come as no surprise they are also intelligent enough to understand cooking.

A Wellington Zoo staff member has travelled to Colombia to help a local conservation group care for endangered primates.

A new warning has sounded for the world’s smallest dolphin, with a New Zealand researcher now reporting there are less than 50 Maui’s dolphins left.

What happens when you lock one of New Zealand's most hated predators up with two other notorious killers?

Forget The Bachelor - it's a tiny crab that takes the cake for the ultimate act of courtship.

They perform feats of amazing acrobatics, create intricate works of art and some just look weird - but until last year these species were completely unknown to science.

In a paper published yesterday in Science, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) describe the unique mechanism that enables the opah, a deepwater predatory fish, to keep its body warm.

Scientists have long assumed that all fish are basically cold-blooded, but all that has just changed.

The Earth is on course to lose up to one in six of all its species, if carbon emissions continue as they currently are.

Scientists have found around 766 individual methane gas flares off the coast of Gisborne - a “major advance” for science and a first for New Zealand.

A visiting conservationist and molecular biologist has joined calls to save our national bird.

A creature from the past that would have looked like strange mix of unrelated dinosaurs has been discovered.

New Zealand scientists have unveiled major leaps toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions from our belching sheep and cattle, with animal-safe compounds that can slash methane emissions by up to 90 per cent.

It's no Jurassic jest - meet the Velociraptor's vegetarian cousin.

A new review calling for bold and urgent measures to control roaming cats - including compulsory microchipping - has been criticised as flawed.

Shark diving around Stewart Island will be under the spotlight at a public meeting tonight that is being hosted by New Zealand First.

Dog owners love their pets in the same way as they do their children, and the feeling is mutual, scientists have found.

A rat plague in the picturesque Hunua Ranges is threatening New Zealand's biggest mainland population of the kokako.

Tuatara have hatched in the wild in the South Island for possibly the first time in several hundred years, experts say.

NZ is home to tens of thousands of endemic plant, animal, insect and marine species. Jamie Morton looks at 10 new finds.

The Government has relented to a campaign to ban animal trials for the second time in a year, this time within the cosmetics industry.

Researchers have discovered a new hot-spot for a nationally-endangered species of dolphin near the shores of Great Barrier Island.

An unusual white-coloured kingfisher is on the mend after headbutting the window of a Whangarei home by mistake.

A filter-feeding ''lobster'' as big as a human took the place of whales 480 million years ago, a new fossil find has shown.

A bizarre experiment which saw scientists keep the brains of fruit flies alive in a dish for six days may hold the key to explaining - and eventually treating - jet lag.

Dogs are humanity's oldest friends, renowned for their loyalty and abilities to guard, hunt and chase.

Researchers say gerbils, not rats, should be blamed for wiping out millions during the Black Plague.

Scientists believe they may have found the strongest natural material known to man - and it's the teeth of the humble limpet.

The sharp decline in honeybees has been linked to changes in foraging behaviour brought on by stress, a study has found.