A survey crew that has spent the past five years tracking whale locations just had their first orca sighting -- off the coast ...

A young pygmy killer whale — a rare type of dolphin — was recently rescued after becoming stranded on a shore in South ...

False killer whales - which are in fact a dolphin - are typically deep-sea dwellers, and are one of the rarest marine mammals ...

Photo from the University of Guyana A young pygmy killer whale — a rare type of dolphin — was recently rescued after becoming stranded on a shore in South America. The incident occurred on ...

The animals were continuously restranding. False killer whales are actually one of the largest members of the dolphin family. This is the first stranding by false killer whales in Tasmania since 1974.

Challenging surf conditions forced rescuers to abandon their efforts to save a pod of 157 stranded false killer whales.