A near-perfectly preserved 5-meter (16-foot) male was found washed up on a South Island beach in July. It was the first ...

While saving these species from extinction provides hope for the future, Dr Sophia Nicolov, AHRC Career Fellow and ...

Beaked whales can dive 2,000 metres below the ocean's surface. Why and how do they do it? Around 2,000 metres below the surface, the water is freezing, black and seemingly impenetrable. No light ...

The carcass of a whale found in Hong Kong waters will be buried on Monday but its skeleton will be used for research purposes later, the government has revealed. The Agriculture, Fisheries and ...

A potentially fatal virus that was previously only found in a Longman’s beaked whale stranded on Maui in 2010 has now been discovered in 10 whale and dolphin host species across the Pacific.

All varieties of beaked whales have different stomach ... will keep the jawbone and teeth of the whale before its skeleton is displayed in a museum. 3D printing will be used to replicate those ...