And on the other side of the Atlantic, an entire pod of 77 pilot whales washed up on a beach in Orkney off the northeastern coast of Scotland, one of the largest mass strandings recorded in decades.

On Sunday, more than 30 pilot whales were moved to the water. On Monday, a team from the Ministry of Conservation monitored Ruakaka Beach to ensure the mammals did not become stranded again.

A pod of 10 pilot whales stranded in Golden Bay have been re-floated into deep water on Wednesday. The group of eleven whales were first stranded on Monday near Taupata Point, with one dying, But ...

Ten pilot whales refloated from a Golden Bay beach Tuesday night have restranded. The Department of Conservation (DOC) says rescuers are heading to the beach at Taupata Point, near Pakawau. The whales ...

Project Jonah was called to reports of up to 30 pilot whales coming on-shore about 7pm Saturday. Local medics and the senior Project Jonah team stayed with the whales until last light. It was the ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale ... [+] seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

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Germany has deployed an underwater stealth drone named “Blue Whale” to patrol the Baltic Sea in its latest attempt to confront Russian and Chinese saboteurs. As tensions rise over the cutting ...

Trotter said plenty of volunteers were keeping the whales cool, with the aim to refloat the pod around high tide this afternoon. A pod of pilot whales was refloated several times in December.

The Daily Pilot’s e-newspaper includes Sunday’s ... blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by a vessel.

The biggest cetacean in the world is the blue whale, whose scientific name is Balaenoptera musculus. This huge animal reaches approximately 100 feet long. Some can reach slightly longer, but this is a ...