Officials praised as "incredible" the efforts made by hundreds of people to help save the foundering pilot whales.
More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean after ...
An extremely rare spade-toothed beaked whale is being examined by researchers in New Zealand. Only seven of its kind have ...
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 ...
None of the rescued whales were re-stranded, but three adults and one calf died, authorities said.
New Zealand is a whale-stranding hotspot, with more than 5,000 episodes recorded since 1840, according to the Department of Conservation. The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 ...
Scientists in New Zealand have begun a historic dissection of the rarest whale species in the world. The discovery of a male spade-toothed whale—which washed up near the fishing village of ...