Researchers hope to get to the “backbone of the story” of their ancestors when they travel to Harvard University with taonga samples for testing. The taonga were discovered at the Wairau Bar in ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

“One particular taonga that we're interested in is a dolphin or porpoise tooth necklace, we're not 100% sure what it is, that was excavated in the [19]40s and taken away to Canterbury University ...

Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate with each other using high-pitched clicks and ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Some toothed whales use only their teeth to capture and grab prey and ... 77 species of toothed whale (including dolphins and porpoises), compared with only 15 baleen whale species.

Appearances can be deceiving in the animal kingdom. Some of the most charming creatures harbor hidden dangers beneath their ...

The scene was gruesome — the tattered, unnervingly carved-up remains of a dolphin were found lying on a Jersey Shore beach last fall. Its beak, dorsal fin and tail in tact — the rest meticulously ...

Hippos have tusks that grow from modified teeth at the front of their mouths ... had the aquatic skin traits that hippos and cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises)share. Unlike most mammals, ...

YES. GOOD ONE. ED. YEAH. YOU REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO WE SAW A PORPOISE OUT IN THE DEEPER PART OF THE HARBOR, OVER THERE BY THE GAS TANK. THIS TIME ONE CAME INTO THIS. THIS SMALL INLET NEAR TINIAN ...