Tuatara classification

New Zealand’s endemic tuatara is a very unusual animal. They are the only living representative of a group of reptiles...

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

New Zealand’s endemic tuatara is a very unusual animal. They are the only living representative of a group of reptiles...

Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) once lived throughout the South Island. Their original habitats were the bushy edges of lowland swamps and...

Scientifically, takahē have been something of a mystery. For several decades, it was assumed that takahē were extinct in both...