A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection in New Zealand after washing ...

Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's ...

New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only ...

An extremely rare spade-toothed beaked whale is being examined by researchers in New Zealand. Only seven of its kind have ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is ...

The dissection, conducted alongside Māori iwi members, honors the whale as a sacred “taonga” (treasure) and includes ...

Four of the pilot whales died, New Zealand’s conservation agency said. New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot and pilot whales are especially prolific stranders. A team was monitoring ...

New Zealand has long been a hotspot for whale strandings, with pilot whales being particularly susceptible to such events. The dramatic rescue took place on Ruakākā Beach, near Whangārei on New ...

Four of the pilot whales died, New Zealand’s conservation agency said. New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot and pilot whales are especially prolific stranders. A team was monitoring ...

Rescuers rope off an area around a dead pilot whale that was stranded on Ruakākā Beach in northland, New Zealand, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (Nikki Hartley/New Zealand Department Of Conservation via ...