Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 9 (UPI) --Six pilot whales are dead and 15 others are stranded on New Zealand's South Island, and volunteers are furiously ...

Volunteers race to save 15 whales after mass stranding on New Zealand beach - Six whales die after pod washes ashore on narrow sand formation known for repeated strandings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As many as 55 pilot whales washed up on Farewell Spit, on New Zealand’s southern island - Reuters A rescue mission has been ...

Rescuers in New Zealand have saved 28 pilot whales who became stranded in shallow water. The volunteers and medics working for a nonprofit have been trying to refloat the animals since Monday on the ...

The stranding, in an isolated part of Stewart Island, off the coast of the South Island, was the largest in New Zealand since 250 pilot whales died last year in one of the worst such incidents in the ...

On Saturday, a hiker on a remote island in New Zealand discovered two pods worth of pilot whales had washed up on the beach. Though around 75 whales were dead when the hiker got to them, conservation ...