Marine bacteria on an agar plate

Plankton, which means floating, are microscopic organisms that drift in either saltwater or freshwater. These organisms can be animals, plants...

Nikki Webb, a student at the University of Waikato, worked on a summer research scholarship collating an inventory of biodiversity...

Many of New Zealand’s species are endemic – they are found nowhere else on Earth. This makes New Zealand’s biodiversity...

Adaptation is an evolutionary process whereby an organism becomes increasingly well suited to living in a particular habitat. It is...