COMMENT: Plastics are affecting turtle populations but probably not in the way you think.

The endangered kea has been seen on camera using a stick tool to access food.

A new study looking at plight of native fish and land use change paints a grim picture.

UQ Global Change Institute Director Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg explains significance of new research that has found evidence to suggest the 2016 coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef also affected deep reefs. Credit: UQ Global Change Institute

Diver spotted turtle behaving abnormally near Whangarei Heads.

Goats are drawn to happy people, researchers say.

A University of Otago research team have recently returned from a month-long expedition to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands where they have been collecting data on a recovering population of southern right whales. / University of Otago

NZ scientists have found a clever way to count thousands of individual dolphins.

Profit for the group grew 10 per cent, despite a dip in revenue.

In the name of science, Luis Ortiz-Catedral has been hunting snakes on an active volcano.

Could a cat parasite could be good for business?

Have you ever put your car keys in the fridge while leaving milk on the outside?

Scientists, curious as to how lizards survive through hurricanes, blasted the creatures.

Move over Whale-ington - Auckland has its big mammal news to brag about.

Digitally reconstructing the huge Haast's eagle could help save birds that still remain.

Humpbacks stocks are growing and are now 50 per cent of the pre-whaling population.

Zebras evolved their black and white stripes to stay cool has been debunked by research.

A long-running conservation mission aims to restore Waikato's Karioi as a seabird kingdom.

Kiwi scientists have used DNA to find out how the first pooches arrived in the Pacific.

A new report is good news for the greenfinch - but worrying for the tiny waxeye.

Get up close and personal with a species endangered by a 9000% poaching increase.

Records of spider ballooning go back centuries.

Study says global warming is moving fish around faster than laws can handle.

Warmer-water events can worsen the nutritional balance of fish, new study finds.

Let Cory Toth from the University of Auckland show you how Mystacina bats get lucky. / assabvideos

In a dating age dominated by Tinder, NZ's bats prefer to do romance the old-fashioned way.

Dinosaur's too old to resurrect but there's hope for birds.

A 240-million-year-old fossil - and an exciting new clue in an evolutionary mystery.

A 20-year DoC project in the South Island valley shows the value of pest control.

Climate change puts animals with white fur in danger as it leaves them vulnerable.