New Zealand’s Indigenous people consider whales a taonga — a sacred treasure — of cultural significance. New Zealand has recorded more than 5,000 whale strandings since 1840.

Only six other spade-toothed whales have ever been found, but all those discovered intact were buried before DNA testing could verify their identification. New Zealand is a whale-stranding hotspot ...

Nine pilot whales have become stranded at Farewell Spit, at the northern tip of Golden Bay in the South Island. New Zealand's ...

Boaters off the coast of New Zealand spotted a pod of pilot whales for the first time in over two decades, photos show. “Today’s morning safari was like no other … ” the Auckland Whale ...

a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin, the local people who led the scientific team, Te Rūnanga ...

Scientists in New Zealand have begun dissecting what is considered the rarest whale in the world, a species so elusive that only seven have ever been documented. Earlier this year, a dead spade ...

Boaters spotted pilot whales off of Auckland, New Zealand, for the first time in decades, photos show. Photo from Reel Focus Productions, UnSplash Boaters off the coast of New Zealand spotted a ...

a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin, the local people who led the scientific team, Te Rūnanga ...