Martinborough’s cave of bones: How thousands of flightless birds met their end

Fossilised bird grave sites are common in New Zealand, but one particular cave in Martinborough has revealed thousands of bones of flightless birds who plunged to their deaths.

Seeing earthquakes

A right continental fuss: Zealandia explained

Dr Hamish Campbell, Te Papa's geologist in residence from GNS Science, talks about the news that intrigued the world in February 2017 - that it can legitimately be claimed that Zealandia is a distinct continent.

Confessions of a bounty hunter: Discovering New Zealand’s first fossil bug

In photos: Giant eggs, tiny eggs, and the eggceptionally rare

Another extinct bird: New Zealand’s prehistoric swan

Filming the elusive kiwi in the 1940s

Bird expert, Colin Miskelly, comments on recently rediscovered 1940s footage of a kiwi, and explains how far wildlife documentaries have come in the last 70 years.