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

Eight pilot whales which were stranded at Farewell Spit in Golden Bay have been successfully refloated by rescuers. Project ...

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.

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

Back in the nineteenth century, Peter Orlando Hutchinson’s sketchbooks have pictures of beached whales such as the 70ft one that was brought ashore at Beer in February 1876, and the pilot whale found ...

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 ...

The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo in France on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo ...