North Island's Whanganui River has been granted the same legal rights and privileges as a human being.
New research has suggested that humans may have been responsible for the formation of the Sahara.
The 400,000-year-old fossil cranium has been hailed as the oldest discovery of its kind in the country.
One of the art world's most hotly debated mysteries may have finally been solved after 500 years.
The space agency has been given a set of ambitious new goals which include a manned mission to Mars.
In a peculiar change to their normal behavior, humpback whales have been seen congregating en masse.
Three elusive True's beaked whales have been captured on camera during an expedition to the Azores.
An intriguing optical illusion involving a plate of strawberries has been doing the rounds online.
A new experiment has revealed for the first time just how remarkably innovative bees can actually be.
One of the world's rarest snakes has been sighted again for the first time in more than six decades.
In a remarkable breakthrough, microbes trapped inside cave crystals have been brought back to life.
An old type of aircraft commonly used during Word War II has been sighted numerous times over Derbyshire.
Volunteers have been struggling to refloat hundreds of whales after two consecutive mass strandings.
The unusual hue of certain tarantulas has been helping scientists develop vibrant new 3D-printed colors.
More than 450 large geometrical geoglyphs have been discovered in areas cleared by deforestation.
The earliest known filter-feeding pterosaur has been unearthed in northeast China's Liaoning province.
The experimental tether had been designed to help solve the problem of space junk in Earth's orbit.
It has now been four decades since a group of children witnessed a UFO outside their school in Wales.
Known as Handle, the new robot has been described as 'nightmare-inducing' by founder Marc Raibert.
A secretive 'priest hole' in an English Tudor mansion has been tied to the infamous 'Gunpowder Plot'.