A stranded long-finned pilot whale was euthanized in Sea Bright after attempts to return it to the ocean failed. The whale, a 15-foot male, was found stranded in the surf and deemed too weak to ...

Major turning point in the fight to end hunts that see dolphins and pilot whales driven into shallow bays and killed ...

Pilot whales don't typically summer in Rye's Milton Harbor. Until one did. A pilot whale, one presumes, could summer wherever it wants. For five days in August 1993, a sickly wayward whale trekked ...

Killer whales are among the oceans’ top predators. But in Iceland, pilot whales have them running scared. Filipa Samarra This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and ...

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them.

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

Wildlife officials, scientists and volunteers have been scrambling this week to save dozens of pilot whales that beached themselves in the shallow waters of Florida’s Everglades. A fishing guide on ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A vanishing species of whale gave birth to few babies this birthing season, raising alarms among scientists and conservationists who fear the animal could go extinct. The ...