The Cardinal

Local residents were riveted when an orca took on sharks in shallow water off the southern coast of New Zealand Tuesday. Sharks were attacked by Orca Killer Whaless on Boxing Day as they were corralled into shallow water at the Blue Cliffs Beach in Tuatapere, New Zealand. The sharks tried to escape the killer whales [...]

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A helicopter installing a Christmas tree in Auckland, New Zealand, was involved in a dramatic crash after the craft became tangled in wires. Jaz Gribble, son of the pilot, shares how the crash was ‘nervewracking’. A videographer captured a helicopter crash in Auckland, New Zealand at the Viaduct Basin or Viaduct Harbor on Auckland’s waterfront. [...]

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Manukura the white kiwi is among the rarest of birds, and she appears to have recovered after a heart scare during surgery in New Zealand to remove a stone from her gizzard. Manukura was treated at the same zoo, Wellington Zoo, where a penguin was treated with a surgical procedure to remove over 6 pounds [...]

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VIDEO: “Happy Feet” needed a little push before speeding backward down a makeshift slide down the research ocean vessel “Tangaroa”. Once in the water, he popped his head up for one last look. And then he was gone. “Happy Feet” the wayward emperor penguin was back home in Antarctic waters with 25-foot seas. More than [...]

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Video of rescue from concrete collapse in building (audio narration is low volume at the end). A New Zealand television station broadcast dramatic video of the rescue of two survivors from the devastating quake that hit the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The video was shot by a rescuer inside a building in central Christchurch [...]

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Office workers trapped under their collapsed buildings sent messages to the outside as rescuers with dogs scrambled to save them and dozens of others following a powerful earthquake that killed at least 65 in one of New Zealand’s largest cities. A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand, about 5:50 p.m. CT according to the U.S. [...]

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