
Photos: Crap taxidermy
Images are extracted from Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su, RRP $19.99, available 30 September where all good books are sold.
Images are extracted from Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su, RRP $19.99, available 30 September where all good books are sold.
Graphic content warning: A 22-year old man has admitted to animal cruelty charges in the Greymouth District Court.
A foal is turning heads not because of its lineage but for its rare white colour.
An inquiry is underway how it took zoo staff more than 15 minutes to reach the scene of an incident where a young man was killed by a white tiger.
Live slow, die old and leave a controversial corpse. That could have been a suitable motto for Lonesome George, the celebrated, centenarian giant tortoise who died in the Galapagos Islands.
The Department of Conservation and other pest management bodies will have an extra tool to battle rats, stoats and possums with Ohiti - a new trap sensor system.
Tauranga has been put on the celebrity-pooch map after global superstar Lady Gaga bought a month's worth of dog food from a Tauranga company.
A live scorpion has been destroyed after being found in the tent of a traveller returning to Auckland from Mexico.
Two Reefton women who were caught in the bush as 1080 poison rained from the sky last summer are now both reporting ill health.
A Northern Territory goose hunter fought off a crocodile by wrestling it and poking it in the eyes, police say.
Volunteers have gone into South Island back country looking for white-tailed deer which may have been killed by a Department of Conservation 1080 poison drop.
Skinks might not be as ''sexy'' as other endangered wildlife but giving $146,000 to support the work of a community group focusing on boosting the Otago skink population is money well spent, Conservation Minister Nick Smith says.
Scientists yesterday discovered the eyes were 35cm wide, at least 8cm bigger than the last one.
New Zealand scientists hope to discover what makes 350kg deep sea beast tick. Watch a live stream of the examination.
A man is being hunted by police after he was filmed apparently dumping a dead puppy in a Christchurch creek.
A dogs' home in northern England says it is "overwhelmed" after an online appeal raised 1 million ($2m) in 24 hours from more than 110,000 donations.
Man's best friend is more closely aligned to humans than many dog owners may realise.
Hotels are now offering special packages for pampered pooches, writes Sarah Marshall.
Ever wanted to meet a kiwi up close? Auckland Zoo is offering a chance to do just that with a behind-the-scenes kiwi experience.
There's been a proliferation of pre-election political panels in the run-up to this election - more than I can remember, which is a healthy sign in our democracy.
The man killed by a shark at Byron Bay in New South Wales joked with his parents during their last conversation about the risk sharks posed.
The start of a war will be commemorated this week -- one waged not on foreign battlefields, but across our own offshore islands.
British ex-pat Paul Wilcox joked with his step-father: "I always wear a wetsuit and I use a lot of sun lotion. The sun's not the problem, the sharks are.”
A man risked his life as he entered blood-drenched water to try to save a swimmer being attacked by a shark at a popular New South Wales beach.