Giant weta conservation has a new peer-reviewed blueprint: two Auckland facilities raised 11,214 wetapunga over 15 years, ...

Once hunted to the brink by predators they had never evolved to outrun, New Zealand's colossal wētāpunga crickets spent ...

Austin Abrams anchors Brian Duffield’s gooey, gorgeous survival thriller about grief inside a sperm whale. Science, not so ...

Jiminiy Christmas! Once on the brink of extinction, the world’s heaviest insect — the wētāpunga — is staging a remarkable ...

Now, conservationists have pulled off a remarkable rescue. According to a new study, a breeding and reintroduction effort ...

New Zealand's heaviest insect has been taking big steps toward a population boom, with the success of a ground-breaking breeding and conservation programme.

The success of a large-scale recovery programme for wētāpunga/Little Barrier giant wētā, New Zealand's heaviest insect, has ...

The giant insect, native to New Zealand, weighs roughly as much as a chicken egg and was reduced to a single-island ...

The success of a large-scale recovery program for wētāpunga/Little Barrier giant wētā, New Zealand's heaviest insect, has been officially documented in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology. Over 15 ...

Trapped inside a sperm whale with only an hour of oxygen, a grieving son confronts his relationship with his father in the ...

Wētāpunga, New Zealand's heaviest insect, survived on a single island. After 11,000 zoo-bred releases, it now has new wild populations. By the middle of the 20th century, the wētāpunga had vanished ...