Since healthy whales are equipped with several abilities to detect their surrounding thoroughly, it is often difficult to explain why...

Within the last two weeks, five dolphins were found by walkers in different places along the coast of the Isle of Wight. They have all...

A group of short-finned pilot whales found themselves washed ashore at Matarangi Spit, north of Wellington, earlier this weekend. Among...

A head- and tailless dolphin was found on a beach in Devon, UK, on Christmas Day evening. It is believed to have been victim to bycatch...

Dolphin strandings are common in the canals around Sukkur, India. They tend to become separated from the main body of water they live in...

A whale shark’s life was saved two days before Christmas after it stranded on Green Island, Australia. The 7-metre shark had been...

Leatherback turtles are more common around the Cornish Coast where they prefer the deep and warm waters. Thus, it was a very unusual case...

Late in the morning in Hayle, UK, a live stranded bottlenose dolphin was encountered by a dog walker who proceeded to call the British...

The rescue of a single stranded marine mammal is already a difficult situation to coordinate, but one that can usually be dealt with by a...

The number of stranded marine mammals with marine debris such as plastic and nets found in their stomach is on the rise. Last week, a...

After two whales had been beached in the river Thames in October – a sperm whale and shortly after an endangered sei whale – another...

Last week, a sub-adult sperm whale had stranded and dies on a beach near Harris, Scotland. The 26-ton male had been guarded by the coast...

When a spotted dolphin was found stranded between rocks and a sandbank on uMhlanga Beach in South Africa, several teams sprang into...

Stationed in Hampton Bay, NY, the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society AMSEAS is devoted to marine animals by researching, educating and...

We often cover the stories of stranded marine mammals, reporting what necropsies revealed about the animal’s condition and what we can...

A harbour porpoise was washed ashore in Dunbar, Scotland, over the last weekend. The reason for its death was most likely a deep...

Another young whale estimated to be one to three years of age was found washed ashore, this time at the northern end of Virginia Beach,...

After a stranded humpback whale had been recorded in Samoa, CA, just two weeks ago, another stranding event occurred about 300 miles to...

We have had an update on the beached humpback whale in Samoa: The humpback whale had been stranded for over 30 hours. Dr. Dawn Goley...

A young sperm whale thought to be less than three years old was washed up on the Welsh coast in Gwynedd last week. Though the 6.7 m meter...