Seven stranded whales found dead in Indonesia
- 13-Oct-2019
Residents of nearby Menia Village managed to save ten of the whales, all roughly three to four metres long, in a rescue attempt on Friday.
In Russia, a battle to free nearly 100 captured whales
- 22-Feb-2019
Dozens of orcas and beluga whales captured for sale to oceanariums have brought Russia's murky trade into the spotlight
Scientists use drones to monitor whale health
- 04-Feb-2019
The old cry of sailors sighting a whale’s waterspout is taking on new meaning as scientists turn to drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, to gather samples of the fluids exhaled by the huge mammals and track their health
Giant sea mammals suffer decompression sickness, just like scuba divers
- 30-Jan-2019
Giant sea mammals suffer decompression sickness, just like scuba divers
145 whales ‘inexplicably’ die on remote New Zealand beach
- 26-Nov-2018
WELLINGTON: Up to 145 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on a remote part of a small New Zealand island, authorities said Monday. The stranding was discovered by a hiker late Saturday on Stewart Island, 30 kilometres (19 miles) off the southern coast of the South Island. Half of the whales were already […]
VIDEO: Hundreds of whales stranded on New Zealand beach
- 10-Feb-2017
WELLINGTON: A beach in New Zealand wore of look of ‘whale island’ after more than 400 whales stranded on the seashore in what is being said as the worst recorded whale strandings in the nation’s history. The pilot whales were found on Friday at remote Farewell Spit at the northernmost tip of the South Island […]
12 whales die after Australia stranding
- 23-Mar-2015
SYDNEY: Twelve whales died on Monday after stranding themselves against a rocky breakwater on Australia's west coast, with experts working hard to save another four.