The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

A striking image of a pūkeko in flight has seen Northland hunter and photographer David Towgood named winner of the Game Bird ...

First off, there are two Royal Canadian Mints: the one on Sussex Drive in Ottawa an another in Winnipeg.

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

Pacific allies don’t usually air their dirty laundry in public. But a rare on-the-record dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the poor and isolated island nation ...

New York City zoos are taking extra precautions after announcing the deaths of several ducks and wild birds amid concerns of ...

For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...

Other duck species and Canada geese also were among the victims. The warmer weather and melting ice along Lake Michigan, which has opened up new areas of water, likely contributed to the large ...