A wildlife ranger says the discovery of a beached whale, believed to be a beaked whale, on South Australia's Kangaroo Island ...

On July 4, the Travers's beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii), never seen alive before, washed up on a beach in Otago, New Zealand. The discovery is invaluable to scientists, who can now study the ...

“I can’t tell you how extraordinary it is,” said a joyful Anton van Helden, senior marine science adviser for New Zealand’s conservation agency, who gave the spade-toothed whale its name to ...

If you notice that all of the exhibits at the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology are looking even smarter than usual ...

Crews returned Sunday morning to the scene of a whale stranding in the South Island’s Golden Bay. And in a post on social ...

A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection after washing ashore on a New Zealand beach this summer. Since the 1800s, only six other spade-toothed ...

Three pilot whales died on Sunday, including one euthanised by volunteers, after a group of 30 whales of a range of ages and ...

WELLINGTON, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Three pilot whales died on Sunday, including one euthanized by volunteers, after a group of 30 whales of a range of ages and sizes re-stranded near the northern tip of ...

The Whale Interpretive Centre, where visitors could walk underneath huge whale skeletons suspended from the ceiling, was a huge tourist attraction that helped fuel the economy of northern Vancouver ...