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Critter of the Week is our chance to put the spotlight on some of our endangered creatures. This week we're turning our attention to jaw moths, they're considered to be the most primitive living… Audio

It's time for Critter of the week where we put the spotlight on an endangered insect, and today's critter is the very definition of tiny but mighty. The Crabill's centipede is small by most standards… Audio

It's just after three thirty which means it's time to talk critter of the week, the segment where we focus on an endangered creature. Today the spotlight is on the Western Tiger Moth. As the name… Audio

Next Thursday is World Ranger Day, and to celebrate this important role and the people doing it, our critter of the week is the endemic ranger dragonfly. Just like human rangers, these ranger… Audio

This week's critter of the week loves freezing temperatures, no sunlight and extreme pressure. It lives at extreme depths, seven kilometres down, not just surviving but thriving. Nicola Toki joins… Audio

This week's star critter is called a scorpion fly and yet it isn't actually a scorpion or a fly. Stumped? Us too... Fortunately, Nicola Toki is with to explain what it is. Audio

It's critter of the week time, and this week we're looking at the Golden Hunter Wasp. It's also known as the red spider wasp because they hunt spiders in a most impressive manner. Audio

This week's critter of the week will resonate with highly observant nature lovers. You may have noticed strange little markings covering the surface of leaves, turns out these are actually tunnels… Audio

Speargrass might not win any popularity contests - its sharp spikes can draw blood from unsuspecting trampers - but for one of New Zealand's most endangered insects, the stout speargrass (Aciphylla… Audio

This week's critter might be the most mysterious mammal on Earth. There are only seven records of the spade-toothed whale, Mesoplodon traversii - despite it being the size of a car. The first record… Audio

This week, we're talking about a group of edible red seaweeds called karengo. Karengo is dark, sleek and slippery and grows throughout Aotearoa (and the world) on rocky coastlines in the intertidal… Audio

This week's critter is an endangered weta that only lives in the silty river margins of the Mackenzie Basin. The small, cute and elusive Takapo ground weta, Hemiandrus 'furoviarius', digs itself a… Audio

This week's critter is the piriwai or yellow mayfly, Ameletopsis perscitus - a dazzling, dainty insect with a dark past. Audio

You could mistake this week's critter, the giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea), for a soccer ball. The giant fungus can grow into a puffy white ball up to 50 cm in diameter! Giant puffballs are also… Audio