New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only seven specimens have ever been documented. The dead spade-toothed whale ...

Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from ... at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin, the local people who led the ...

Fossils from an ichthyosaurs found in North Canterbury are helping advanced understanding of these dolphin-like reptiles.

“some account of the chief peculiarities of the Fauna of New Zealand.” It so happens that the series of animals of our antipodean colony in the Zoological Society's Gardens is at the present ...

“The time has come to make a call in the best interest of the animals,” he said. Greyhound Racing New Zealand, an industry group, accused the government of not recognizing improvements ...