Living on the edge
New Zealand hosts the longest-lived geckos on the planet and was once home to the largest, the kawekaweau of Maori folklore. And as we learn more about our geckos with every study, the stranger and more extraordinary they appear.
New Zealand hosts the longest-lived geckos on the planet and was once home to the largest, the kawekaweau of Maori folklore. And as we learn more about our geckos with every study, the stranger and more extraordinary they appear.
January 26, 2007 marked a special occasion for New Zealand's royal family. After seventy years of breeding on Taiaroa Head at the entrance to Otago Harbour, the northern royal albatrosses have hatched their 500th chick—a tribute to the dedication of not only the birds, but also the humans who have watched over them.
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