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 ...

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 ...

In one of the largest Beach strandings, at least 65 pilot whales have died on an island off the North Coast of Scotland in Britain. The British Drivers Marine Life Rescue said that it had altered ...

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 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.

At least 65 long-finned pilot whales have died after being stranded on an island off the north coast of Scotland, a rescue charity said on Thursday, in one of the largest mass strandings in ...

Dozens of long-finned pilot whales have beached and died on Sanday in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, in the biggest mass stranding the country has seen since 1995.

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 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 ...

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 ...