A Department of Conservation animal behaviour expert says the appearance of stowaway seal at an offshore gas platform tops ...

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The bodies of six fur seal pups have been found decapitated in a popular bay on New Zealand's South Island. The 11-month-old seals were discovered on Monday by a tourism operator in Scenery Nook ...

A stowaway seal has made a surprise visit onto an offshore gas platform in the Tasman Sea off the coast of Taranaki. The young kekeno/New Zealand fur seal smuggled its way on a supply basket being ...

The large northern fur seal, found in chilly northern waters, was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. These animals were protected by law in 1911, and populations later rebounded to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. There are thousands of baby seal pups at play at the Ohau Point Seal Colony, a waterfall in New Zealand. Visitors can walk a short trail to observe the frolicking ...

A slab of seal poo used for scientific research in New Zealand has led to the unlikely discovery of a USB stick full of holiday snaps. The sample, known as scat, had been stored for over a year ...

Dean Brownlie of New Zealand plays a shot against Pakistan during their first Twenty20 match at Eden Park in Auckland on December 26. New Zealand will try to cash in on a new-found confidence ...

Over the same time period, 522 seabirds, including albatross and petrels, and 152 mammals were killed, mostly New Zealand fur seals, with ten critically endangered Hector's dolphins also dying in ...