A total of 1,935 whales were observed across all islands, during the second Ocean Count and Great Whale Count for the 2026 season. That’s down by 12 whales from the same time last year. The number may ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience researchers have identified 10 new ...

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers identified 10 new species and seven new groups (genera) of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths. While new species are frequently discovered, the description of a new ...

Almost every forest bird species in Hawaii is spreading avian malaria, posing an increasing threat to wildlife in the popular honeymoon destination, according to a new study published in Nature ...

Illustration of the Hawaiian ibis. Credit: S Citron/University of Lethbridge. Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest ...

Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the evolution of bird species on Hawaiian islands includes an ibis with unusually ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new study published Tuesday is helping scientists understand why avian malaria is present in almost all of the same places that mosquitoes are found in Hawaii. Research ...

A treasure trove of fossils found in an ancient cave has revealed a missing chapter in the history of New Zealand’s wildlife. Described in Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, the ...

Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa's North Island, the first time a large number of million-year-old fossils have ...