“Often it’s simple misadventure - one or two or a few animals get themselves ... finned pilot whales off the country’s western coast in 2018. Australia’s largest ever beaching was 320 ...

Whales are huge, long-lived mammals. The blue whale is the largest animal that’s ever lived on Earth — it is bigger than the dinosaurs. It can live an estimated 80 to 90 years! The bowhead whale, a ...

This is not the first time this kind of beaching happens in the Argentine Patagonia area: in 1991, almost 200 pilot whales were stranded and died twenty kilometers north in Punta Tafor.

Whales are mammals, which means they are warm-blooded and give birth to live young. They also breathe air with either one or two blowholes, depending on their species. To help them regulate their ...

The marine mammals stranded themselves in Hamelin Bay, 315 km south of the state’s capital, Perth, between March 22 and 23. All but six of more than 150 short-finned pilot whales that stranded ...

"They've been stranded now for, we estimate, 24 to 48 hours." Attempts to float two of the beached whales were unsuccessful. Due to the duration of the beaching and the inaccessibility of the location ...