This past July 4th, a rare beaked whale washed up on a beach in New Zealand. This species is so elusive it has never been ...

A near-perfectly preserved 5-meter (16-foot) male was found washed up on a South Island beach in July. It was the first ...

More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand were safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on ...

Over the past 160 years, more than 5,000 whales and dolphins have been recorded stranded around the New Zealand coast. They are most common in the summer, when whales pass by on their migration to ...