Issue 038 Apr - Jun 1998

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Like a planet in space, a rainbow trout egg sparks and crackles as biological processes begin a miraculous transformation, the same that progresses silently in the inscrutable waters of New Zealand's wild rivers every day. But even in clean rivers, the odds are stacked against this small vessel of life - only one in a thousand eggs will hatch and survive adulthood. An outtake of hatched fry from from issue 117. Image: George Novak http://bit.ly/16eQOJO
Impressions of Africa | Photography Exhibition by Richard Young This exhibition offers an alternative view of African wildlife. The photographs reflect on the uncertain future of these wild animals, sometimes rendering them as ghost-like images in the landscape. Sadly, more wildlife is becoming just that: ghosts. |Photospace Gallery| 22nd June - 13th July 1/37 Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand Monday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 11am-4pm www.photospacegallery.com

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Issue 038 Apr - Jun 1998

Amid the Mountains to the Sea natural history displays, the bones of a blue whale soar overhead. Many more disembodied whales and dolphins (the museum has one of the world's largest collections of such skeletons) can be viewed in this section, which is organised with a nod to user interaction as well as biological records.

Finding ourselves at Te Papa

Taking over where nature left off, eager hands rub river gravel into the water-worn surface of a…Read more

Frogs have the ability to change colour, within certain limits. The individual on the left was place on a dark substrate, and the one on the right on a light background, before being brought together for this photograph. A hormone released from the pituitary gland choreographs the changes by causing melanin and other pigment elements within special skin cells to redistribute.

The truth about tadpoles and frogs

Bulging eyes, cold, clammy skin, webbed feet and a capacious mouth-frogs may repulse us, but they also intrigue,…Read more

C.F. Goldie: the old Master revisited

To the public he is a national treasure. To critics he was a "one-man academy" who clung to an…Read more

A walk in the Waitutu forest

Southland's remote Waitutu district is considered by many to hold the finest spread of native lowland forest…Read more

'And for Marlborough...' fine and dry

The weather forecasts for central Marlborough had a monotonous sameness last summer, as El Nino kept clouds away…Read more