If we told you there was a species of parrot in the world that can’t fly, would you believe us? We couldn’t believe it ourselves until we saw this wild YouTube video. Those cute little creatures are ...

Inside a hut on remote Whenua Hou/Codfish Island off the coast of New Zealand’s South Island, there’s a chart on the refrigerator depicting the future of a species. That species is the kakapo, an ...

When humans first settled in New Zealand in the 13th century, they found a wonderland of strange creatures—including a green, bumbling parrot with the face of an owl and the mien of an old gentleman.

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled. Could that spell trouble? By Jacey Fortin For decades, the kakapo has been ...

More than 16 million years ago in what is now New Zealand, a giant bird died and sank to the bottom of a lake. Preserved in layers of sand and gray-blue clay, the bones of this behemoth have since ...