After 157 false killer whales were stranded on a Tasmanian beach, experts said only 90 have survived. Following a few failed ...

Tasmania. Every year, around 2000 marine mammals die in mass strandings worldwide. But this is not always for natural reasons ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Australia has begun euthanising the false killer whales stranded on a remote beach in Tasmania. Authorities said they had ...

The whales can weigh anywhere between 500kg to 3,000kg and some had sunk into the sand where they were stranded.

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

Adrián Simancas , a 24-year-old kayaker in Chile, detailed what it was like to be in the mouth of a humpback whale as his father captured the jarring encounter on video on Feb. 8.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

In one recent loss, the female orca known as Tahlequah carried ... expansion plans — projects she said increase underwater noise, risks of whale-ship collisions and the possibility industry ...

Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose ...

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