Ancient trees at risk as Whangārei hapū fights for protection
Culturally sacred trees believed to be hundreds of years old are at risk of being cut down due to a lack of protection, fears ...
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New Zealand’s ‘Bug of the Year’ Is a Slime-Shooting Predator Older than Dinosaurs— One That Turns Its Victims Into Soup
New Zealand’s Bug of the Year competition has crowned an ancient, bizarre, and surprisingly savage predator as its 2024 champion: the New Zealand velvet worm (Peripatoides novaezealandiae). This ...
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New Zealand’s bug of the year is an ancient worm that spits poison goo
The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the ...
Chatham Islands father son duo makes ancient waka discovery, collecting 450 pieces
Buried in the sand and floating down the river, pieces of an ancient waka have been found, but their origin and age remains a ...
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: A New Zealand mountain now a person, legally
Around the world: Taranaki Maunga, a mountain in New Zealand, has been granted legal personhood, Rwanda initiates Heritage ...
Scientists probe giant undersea landslides to learn about NZ’s big tsunami risk
A new international collaboration is surveying ancient landslide sites in two deep undersea canyons to better understand New ...