Anton van Helden, an expert on some of the world’s rarest whales, was sitting on the couch in July recovering from surgery, ...

The exquisite lineup at Raglan on New Zealand's North Island is more renowned for its perfection and pastoral beauty than its ...

Spade-toothed whales are extremely rare. None have ever been spotted alive at sea. One surfaced in New Zealand in July and now scientists hope to study it and find ways their adaptions to extreme ...

New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only seven specimens have ever been documented. The dead spade-toothed ...

A surfer has died in Raglan on the west coast of the North Island. A police spokesperson said around 2.25pm on Wednesday, emergency services were called to Whale Bay near Raglan, after a surfer was ...

A humpback whale has stunned scientists with a journey that spanned three oceans and more than 8,000 miles, setting the ...

A humpback whale crossed multiple oceans for a massive migration that covered more than 8,000 miles, according to a new study ...

The surviving pilot whales have been refloated after becoming stranded, rescued and then re-stranded in Tasman’s Golden Bay.

All the mountains of stuff that we ship across the oceans comes at a price: whale blood. A recent study in the journal Science calculates just how much, reporting that — thanks to the near-total ...

A sea creature’s death is a mystery after it was found washed up on a New Jersey beach, officials said. On Dec. 4, personnel with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center performed a necropsy on a Minke ...

It’s been called “the most ambitious conservation project attempted anywhere in the world”— will it actually work?

In a remote corner of Antarctica, a group of killer whales capture their prey in the most extraordinary fashion. In a remote corner of Antarctica, a group of killer whales capture their prey in ...