The stranded short-finned pilot whale Haitang is transported to a research ship on Saturday and returns to sea at 6:15 am on Sunday. [Photo by Wang Chenglong/For chinadaily.com.cn] After nearly ...

Then, almost a year later, on June 20, 2023, a pilot whale calf was again spotted within a group of orcas. As before, this group of orcas was known to the team as herring specialists.

The sighting of Eternity beyond Canada’s 200-mile limit was an exciting observation for Dr. Jack Lawson, a DFO research ...

How would the pilot whale calf be feeding during this time? It's a newborn, so it's very young, likely within a month of age. And it would need to nurse from an individual that is able to nurse it.

A female orca appeared to adopt a baby pilot whale in the first known case of its kind. Scientists observed the orca caring for the calf in western Iceland in 2021, a new study says.

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them.

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.

Benevolent Orca Pods Are Adopting Baby Pilot Whales in an Apparent Effort to Clean Up the Species' Image It's a whale of a tale. / Earth & Energy / Killer Whales / Marine Life / Orcas ...

The post added that this wasn’t a small pod of pilot whales, either. “We saw hundreds of them, stretching as far as the eye could see,” 7 Seas Whale Watch said, describing males that were ...

In September 2022, about 200 pilot whales died during a mass whale stranding at the entrance to Macquarie Harbour. After an extensive rescue operation, about 30 animals were refloated from 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 ...