Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's ...

A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection in New Zealand after washing ...

New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only ...

An extremely rare spade-toothed beaked whale is being examined by researchers in New Zealand. Only seven of its kind have ...

Officials praised as "incredible" the efforts made by hundreds of people to help save the foundering pilot whales.

Volunteers rushed to save dozens of whales stranded along a bay in central New Zealand on Monday (December 2), handout ...

There have been mutterings and murmurings over who might replace Ioan Cunningham, but so far there is no clear frontrunner.

The dissection, conducted alongside Māori iwi members, honors the whale as a sacred “taonga” (treasure) and includes ...

More than 30 pilot whales that washed up on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean. Conservation ...

More than 30 pilot whales stranded on a New Zealand beach were successfully returned to the sea thanks to a collaborative effort by locals and conservation workers, who used sheets to refloat the ...

Whales in the south Pacific have historically found themselves washed up on New Zealand's shores in large numbers. After the ...