A pod of pilot whales stranded at Golden Bay in the Tasman district have been successfully refloated. Ten whales became ...

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

Dead pilot whales found this morning were from an earlier stranding, and not part of the pod of eight refloated this week, ...

BEACH walkers were stunned to come across a massive whale skull washed up on the shore. Samuel Watkiss, 24, a keen surfer and environmentalist from Yorkshire Dales, stumbled upon the ...

They are showing signs of having been sunburned and have healed over, so possibly in the last few weeks they have been beached somewhere else.” Trotter said plenty of volunteers were keeping the ...

Risso’s dolphins are closely related to pilot whales, pygmy killer whales, melon-headed whales, and false killer whales.

On a journey halfway around the globe, Tim Waddington had a scary encounter with a school of pilot whales. In the middle of the Atlantic, the rower found himself surrounded by a school of pilot whales ...

Two of the 10 whales have died but rescuers will try to refloat the rest.

While afternoon tea at Reid’s Palace – the salmon-hued, cliffside hotel once frequented by Winston Churchill – and tastings ...

Courtship and procreative behavior in many species of elasmobranchs—cartilaginous fish including rays, sawfish, sharks, and skates—may include following and biting. However, there has been little ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the biggest fish on the planet, with some clocking in at 60 feet long. Now, for the first ...

THERE’S a tiny tidal island in the UK couples often visit on Valentine’s Day because of its ties to a patron saint of love.