About this data *The pollster’s simulation of ranked choice results are shown when available. Caroline SolerPolling researcher Republicans are entering the 2026 midterms with a 218-214 majority in the ...

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

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

There is a special kind of movie magic that appears when digital effects support story and character. Many earlier productions blended practical craft with ...

Imagine an insect the size of your hand. Its body stretches nearly 10 centimeters (4 inches), while its spiny legs can span ...

To be clear, though, Abrams didn't come out of this experience holding any grudges against the whales that populate our ...

Captive breeding has helped New Zealand’s largest giant wētā establish new wild populations, with at least four generations ...

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

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

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

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 ...