Marine experts have given up hope of saving more than 150 false killer whales stranded on a remote beach on Australia's island state of Tasmania Experts including veterinarians were at the scene ...

Whales can become caught in rope that runs between shellfish creels on the seabed to a buoy on the surface. Trials have been done using "ropeless creels" which have the main line in a container along ...

Rescuers are trying to free a pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded off the Australian island of Tasmania. Around 470 whales are in the pod, more than half of which have already died ...

However, these are false killer whales, and it is our first large mass stranding of these animals in around 50 years," said Brendon Clark, liaison officer at the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service.

Scotland fans have been left hundreds out of pocket and stranded in Greece after flights to Heathrow Airport were cancelled due to a nearby fire. The Tartan Army travelled in large numbers to Athens ...

A whale that twice became stranded on a stretch of the north coast of Cornwall has died. A rescue operation started on Thursday to save the 3.67m (12ft) long female pilot whale and it was ...

Scotland’s islands each have their own distinct ... which are most commonly seen in the summer months. And even if the whales remain elusive, Mull’s rich wildlife ensures there’s still ...

TARTAN Army fans have been left stranded in Greece and face missing Scotland's Hampden showdown on Sunday due to Heathrow Airport chaos. Thousands of supporters travelled to Athens to watch Steve ...

Periodically, groups of these relatively large black whales appear near shore well away from their normal deepwater habitats, become stranded on beaches and die. Human attempts to rescue pilot ...

Butch and his fellow NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams have been stranded on the International Space Station since June due to equipment issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft ...