On Sept. 21, 2020, 470 pilot whales became stranded in the same harbor –– making it the worst mass whale stranding in history. Approximately 100 survived the 2020 stranding, ABC News reported.

More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand were safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on ...

There were a series of high-profile pilot whale strandings last year ... aid of an injured or distressed member of their pod. Whale Stranding Indonesia, a nongovernmental organization, says ...

A mass stranding of pilot whales happened on Kauai in 2017 ... CERIZO photo The last individual stranding was a pygmy whale in 2009 near Maalaea Bay, Schofield said. “We usually just see ...

Western Australia has seen several mass whale strandings. In July last year, more than 50 pilot whales died after stranding on a remote beach in the region. The largest whale stranding was in 1996 ...

A dead juvenile humpback whale has washed ashore on the beaches of Corolla in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. First ...

More than 50 pilot whales have died and authorities are racing to save dozens more after a mass stranding on a beach in Western Australia. The pod was first spotted about 100 metres off the coast ...

Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand beaches over recent days, officials say. None of the stranded whales could be refloated and all either died ...

pilot whales are ”notorious for their strong social bonds, so often when one whale gets into difficulty and strands, the rest follow, leading to more of them stranding.” Members of the Lewis ...

Essex Wildlife Hospital says the two pilot whales were part of a pod who had died at a previous stranding. The tourist who found the whale says he believes it was washed in by the tide.

An emergency rescue is underway after a whale beached in Cornwall. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said it received reports a long-finned pilot whale had been found on Gwithian beach ...

History records some spectacularly large events. In 1918, approximately a thousand pilot whales stranded on the Chatham Islands off New Zealand, the largest whale stranding ever. In 1985 about 450 ...