classification

In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus published a system for classifying living things, which has been developed into the modern ...

Māori knowledge of animals is vast. This article is an introduction to Māori knowledge of a selected sample of animal species indigenous to Aotearoa. Mātauranga Māori ...

Discover more about the red admiral butterfly, winner of the 2024 Bug of the Year, and how we can help the butterflies of Aotearoa New Zealand. ...

Exciting news for all fans of lizards (mokomoko) a new species has just been rediscovered. Te mokomoko a Tohu is Aotearoa New Zealand’s newest species of ...

New Zealand Algae Innovations Ltd operated the only spirulina farm in New Zealand. Under the brand name Tahi Spirulina, it sold a range of spirulina food ...

He aha te take o ngā rau o te rākau? Ko te take matua o ngā rau ko te ahotakakame. Mā te ahotakakame te tupu e ...

Kua ruia atu te kākano – kātahi ka aha? Mēnā ka tau te kākano ki tētahi wāhi arotau, ka tinaku, ā, ka pihi he tipu hou. ...

He aha te take o ngā pua? Mā te whakaputa uri tōrua e whai uri ai te nuinga o ngā momo rākau. Nā reira, me whakaputa ...

Me pēwhea tātou e whakarōpū i ngā rauropi koiora? How should we classify biological organisms? Kua tīkina tēnei pikitia whakaari nā Isobel Te Aho-White, i tētahi ...

Nā te manaakitanga a Matua Mokoro Gillett, a te tumuaki o Te Wharekura o Te Rau Aroha, tēnei mahi i tutuki. The purpose of this learning ...

This article provides an introduction to the topic as delivered to students at Te Wharekura o Te Rau Aroha and provides an example unit plan. He ...

What are extremophilic microorganisms? Let’s start by looking closer at microorganisms. All the organisms we know about on Earth are either cellular (by far the majority) ...

This Connected article by Priscilla Wehi and Hemi Whaanga explores how early Māori named and grouped the plants and animals they found around them. Discover what ...

Dolphins are often seen around the coast of Aotearoa New Zealand, but only two species – Hector’s and Māui – are endemic. Hector’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) ...

This Connected article by Sophie Fern, reports on a survey of a 100-metre long rocky reef located 11 kilometres off the Taranaki coast. Students from local ...

We usually think of insects as being animals of the land, but did you know that many insects spend part of their lives in water? Some ...

One of New Zealand’s most well known insects is the wētā, of the Orthoptera order, but there are thousands of other insects species, some of which ...

What is an insect and should we really care about these creepy crawlies? In a word – yes. As American biologist Edward O Wilson puts it, ...

Our planet has life on it, and for that reason, it may be unique in the universe. Ironically enough, we know much more about some of ...

The ‘Buzz of bees’ is a Connected journal devoted entirely to bees. Each article has diagrams and illustrations that offer opportunities for students to develop the ...

In 1880, Alice McKenzie saw a large blue bird in a remote part of Fiordland. Alice and her family made careful observations of the bird and ...

Scientifically, takahē have been something of a mystery. For several decades, it was assumed that takahē were extinct in both the North and South Islands – ...

Ahi Pepe MothNet is a citizen science project that explores New Zealand’s native moths, their distributions and whether vegetation restoration impacts moth diversity. One aspect of ...

Moths are members of the order Lepidoptera, but these mostly nocturnal creatures are often in the shadow of the brighter, day-flying butterflies. New Zealand has fewer ...

The New Zealand Government’s Participatory Science Platform (PSP) is a world-first initiative that aims to engage communities in research projects that are locally relevant and have ...