When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

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

Paleontologists believe that Leioproctus barrydonovani inhabited broadleaf forests surrounding a Miocene maar lake—a crater ...

But, before the arrival of humans, New Zealand did not have any mammals lumbering around and snacking on truffles—the island’s only native mammal species are bats and marine creatures.