Christmas Eve sees UK’s biggest sperm whale mass stranding
Reports on seven large animals stranding on the East Yorkshire coast first reached the British Divers Marine Life Rescue at 8.30 AM on...
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Pilot whale had to be euthanized despite initial hope
Cruising around West Loch Tarbert, UK, for the last three weeks, the long-finned pilot whale had lovingly been dubbed with the name...
Start of humpback whale season in Hawaii
Every winter, North Pacific humpback whales renew their journey from the colder feeding grounds between California and the Bering Sea...
Removal of rotting sperm whale carcass
The body of the 18 metre sperm whale was washed up in Fairhaven, Australia, after floating off the coast and in shallow water the...
Mink whale with broken jaw washed up on Belgian coast
The young mink whale was found dead on the beach of Bredene, Belgium, last Friday. Though the scientists cannot say for sure, the...
Voices against super trawlers rise again as more marine mammal carcasses appear
The stranding of another dead harbour porpoise with signs of net injury on UK shores refired the arguments against the supertrawlers in...
Sei whale dies in New Zealand despite rescue efforts
Reports on a stranded sei whale in Farewell Spit, New Zealand, reached Project Jonah in the early afternoon. The team arrived quickly on...
Study: Death causes in stranded killer whales
Killer whales are a diverse species that ranges through all oceans of the earth while living in locally distinct and adapted populations....
Euthanasia was the only solution for a stranded sperm whale in the Gulf of Mexico
The sperm whale was first discovered two weeks ago on Thursday afternoon (Nov. 19th) in Mobile Bay, Alabama. A very rare sight as...
Deadly mass stranding of almost 100 pilot whales in New Zealand
Over the weekend, 97 whales and three dolphins were washed up on the shores of the Chatham Islands, an island group 800 kilometres off...
Bottlenose dolphins successfully rescued after Hurricane Laura
The mother and her calf were found in a bayou near Grand Chenier, Louisiana. Their displacement was most likely a result of the flooding...
Abnormal number of fin whale strandings on French shores
Only in the last one and a half months, six fin whales were washed up on the French coast – an abnormal number in comparison to the...
Unusual stranding numbers increase in Oregon
The state of Oregon is located in the northern part of the US west coast, with mediterranean water temperature in summer but frigidly...
Humpback whale dies despite ambitious rescue effort
The young humpback whale had become stuck on a sand bar off Morris Island, Florida, after swimming through a maze of shoals. Even for the...
The difficulties of dealing with a whale carcass washed ashore
It is difficult to estimate how many animals die at sea every year. Only a small fraction is washed in close enough to be visible in the...
Successful rescue attempt in biggest pilot whale mass stranding of Sri Lanka
It was Monday afternoon, when the locals of Panadura, a city in the West of Sri Lanka, first noticed the masses of pilot whales being...
Scotland’s Ministry of Defence asked to look into sonar activity as cause for unusual stranding clus
Schottland was faced with several unusual stranding clusters during the last month. Now, post-mortem reports point to noise-mediated...
Strandings of dead marine mammals in Portland demonstrate anthropogenic influence on the sea animals
Within two days, reports about several marine mammals found dead on the shores of Portland have shown again how devastating the influence...
Increasing tension between French fishermen and NGO over increasing bycatch of dolphins
Since 2016, the number of stranded dead dolphins has increased steadily on the French coast. Concerningly, autopsies have revealed that...
Beached bowhead whales point to higher killer whale frequency in the arctic waters
A hunting Inuit family was almost 60 kilometres north of Kugaaruk, Canada, close to the Arctic circle, when they came across four dead...
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