Archives For Invertebrates

A few years ago, a group from Eastern Institute of Technology doing some fieldwork close by to the Tutaekuri River unexpectedly stumbled across some tiny prehistoric-looking critters in a wetland.

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Here’s a little known fact about New Zealand’s biodiversity, we have a staggering amount of different land snails for the size of our country.

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The Open Lab – a free mobile laboratory run by DOC volunteers – made one of its first appearances in Wellington recently. Both children and adults alike enjoyed working with scientists to find and examine live invertebrates with real lab equipment.

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