It is also extraordinarily ancient, with a 100-million-year lineage that makes even the sitting US president and his chief challenger look like spring chickens. The winner of the New Zealand's ...

Palaeontologists found fossils of the parrot in southern New Zealand A giant parrot that roamed New Zealand about 19 million years ago had a height of 1m (3ft 3in) - more than half the average ...

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million ...

A newly discovered ichthyosaur skeleton in New Zealand, found by palaeontologist James Crampton in 2010, offers the most complete specimen of its kind in the region. This 98-million-year-old fossil ...

It's home to glaciers, national parks and vineyards, but there's also a darker side to New Zealand It's a mountainous wonderland decorated with ancient glaciers, breathtaking national parks and ...