Portuguese man-of-war

Poisons are substances that cause harm to organisms when sufficient quantities are absorbed, inhaled or ingested. A toxin is a poisonous substance produced within living cells...

New Zealand has a very small number of poisonous and venomous animals. The grey side-gilled sea slug (Pleurobranchaea maculata) is an example of a poisonous animal....

In the kingdom Animalia, there is a phylum of animals called Bryozoa. Within this phylum, there are about 6,000 species. However, scientists can tell from fossils...

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

In mid-April 2013, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) Dr Jan Wright launched a report On a pathway to extinction? An investigation into the status...