SEA BRIGHT -- A long-finned pilot whale that stranded at the beach here May 14 was euthanized by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center to prevent the animal from further suffering.

Rescuers gather information from dead long-finned pilot whales at Hamelin Bay in Australia on March 23, 2009. "Whale strandings remain a mystery. We don't exactly know why whales and dolphins do ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. For the first time, a team of whale experts have recorded an orca caring for the offspring of another species, a long-finned pilot whale infant.

A sick, starved pilot whale had to be euthanized after washing up on the beach in Sea Bright on Wednesday, officials said. The 15-foot, long-finned, male whale was first spotted struggling in the ...

A mass stranding of long-finned pilot whales in southwestern Australia led to the deaths of 29 of the beached creatures on Thursday, officials said. Another 100 or so of the whales were rescued ...

This newborn long-finned pilot whale, left, pictured with its mom, was “fresh out of the oven,” according to 7 Seas Whale Watch. “The dorsal fin is still floppy, and fetal folds are very ...

An orca is pictured swimming alongside a long-finned pilot whale calf. Orca Guardians Iceland. Findings of the incredibly rare observation have been published in a study, in the Canadian Journal ...

A long-finned pilot whale calf has been documented swimming behind the flipper of a female orca – in “echelon”, or the mother-and-calf position – for the first time.

Short-finned pilot whales and long-finned pilot whales are similar, and difficult to tell apart at sea. Rob Deaville of the Institute of Zoology in London, where CSIP is based, was part of the ...

A sick, starved pilot whale had to be euthanized after washing up on the beach in Sea Bright on Wednesday, officials said. The 15-foot, long-finned, male whale was first spotted struggling in the ...

Last Monday and Tuesday, those aboard the 7 Seas Whale Watch’s Privateer IV were greeted to a sight many captains and naturalists had not seen in more than 10 years: long-finned pilot whales ...