Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful. The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A veiled woman burst screaming from an elevator. The small crowd gathered in a basement corridor of New Zealand ’s parliament drew back nervously. Their guide, wearing a ...

New Zealand was isolated for more than 80 million years, and ended up with a strange crew of castaway creatures. It never originally had mammals like rodents or stoats, so evolution was able to ...