Young killer whale dies from entanglement on the shore of Orkney
The young killer whale was already dead when it washed ashore on Papa Westray on the Scottish Orkney Islands at the beginning of the...
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Over 100 dead porpoises washed up on the Dutch coast in unexplainable mass stranding
The Netherlands usually see between 200 and 900 porpoises washed up on their beaches every year. However, finding more than 100 dead...
Fin whale dies on the shores of Delaware
The big whale was first reported stranded on a sandbank near The Point in Lewes, Delaware. Together with the Delaware National Resource...
Unusual mass stranding in Scotland leaves five bottlenose dolphins dead
The British Divers Marine Life Rescue team (BDMLR) was first alerted to a strangely behaving pod of dolphins at Cromarty Firth, Scotland....
Stranding of Fraser's dolphin linked to novel Morbillivirus strain
After two years of investigating the death of a stranded Fraser’s dolphin in Maui, Hawaii, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at...
Stranding of Orca calf mobilizes hundreds in New Zealand
The stranding of an orphaned orca has kept New Zealand on its toes during the last two weeks. The baby killer whale, thought to be...
Nine stranded whales rescued in a desperate rescue attempt
The twelve melon-headed whales were found stranded in a mudflat hundreds of metres from the shore in Linhai, eastern China. Several...
Nearly 100 whales die in mass stranding in New Zealand
New Zealand has become the sad location of another mass stranding last weekend, when nearly 100 stranded whales were reported to New...
New ecolabel certifies „Whale safe“ shipping and cruise companies
Ship strikes and collisions are a major threat for marine mammals. In the Mediterranean, one of five stranded whales show markings of...
Grey whales developed a successful strategy to counteract North-Pacific die-off
The grey whale population along the North Pacific has suffered from two major unusual mortality events during the last two decades. Far...
2020 marks record year of dead loggerhead turtles in Mexico as situation escalates
According to newly published data by the Mexican government, more than 1,088 North Pacific loggerhead turtles died in 2020 in the Mexican...
Stranded whales help answer mysteries of elusive species
Beaked whales are estimated to make up more than 25% of cetaceans, however, the toothed whales are elusive and therefore incredibly...
IWDG launches new app for reporting whale and dolphin sightings
Coinciding with the National Biodiversity week in Ireland, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group just launched a new app to report dolphins...
Cuvier’s beaked whale dies with 16 kg of plastic in its stomach
The Cuvier’s beaked whale was found half composed on the coast of Messanges, southwest France, on May 8th. An autopsy carried out by the...
Three more dead gray whales wash up in San Francisco Bay within a week
The three dead whales found in San Francisco Bay at the beginning of May all belonged to the decreasing West Coast population of gray...
Rare stranding of the arctic blue whale in Namibia
The arctic population of blue whales that reside around Africa are highly endangered with less than 1% of its original pre-whaling size...
Necropsies shed light on the mass whale stranding in Indonesia
Though marine mammal strandings are common in the rich waters of Indonesia, the pilot whale mass stranding in February was an especially...
Free Zoom conference on stranded marine mammals on April 27th
The free live Zoom presentation “Stranded! Marine Mammal Response in the Northern Half of Maine” will be held by Rosemary Seton of Allied...
Heavy wave of stranded dolphins in Cape Cod Bay
Cape Cod Bay becomes a hotspot for dolphin strandings when the tide goes out. For the local rescue teams, the last month has been...
Why do whales strand? A multinational National Geographic report
National Geographic has published an easy-to-read, comprehensive article on the reasons marine mammals beach themselves. The phenomenon...
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