A rare whale recently died after mysteriously attempting to strand itself on a beach in New Zealand. Locals noticed the animal — a strap-toothed whale — swimming “erratically” near East ...

— Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what ...

a narrow sand bar that stretches out from the most northern point of New Zealand’s South Island into the Tasman Sea for about 26 kilometres (16 miles). About 600 pilot whales beached there in ...

THE disastrous pilot whale beaching in New Zealand became even worse yesterday, writes Peter Frost. Despite the efforts of scores of weary volunteers, who managed to refloat over 100 of the original ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales that are stranded on a remote beach on Australia’s island state of Tasmania ...

They successfully freed it of five ropes, but others remained wrapped around its head. On Monday, the whale was discovered stranded on the shoreline near Oskaig, on Raasay, a small island off Skye's ...