When a drone pilot captured footage of an enormous group of whales off the New South Wales coast last year, it sent scientists into a frenzy. A pod of that size - known as a super-group - and the ...

Marine biologists have discovered that whales play a significant role in removing carbon from the atmosphere in recent years.

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 ...

The stranded whales were discovered on Sept. 21, exactly two years after a similar mass stranding of 470 pilot whales in the same area On Wednesday, a mass stranding of 230 pilot whales was ...

Seventy-seven long-finned pilot whales washed ashore on Thursday on ... Sanday is to the northeast of the group of islands, nearer the open waters. “There are no obvious indications as to ...

Swede Peter, a member of activist group Sea Shepherd, said he counted 236 dead whales before he was recognised by a local and made his escape. Pilot whales are classified as “strictly protected ...

Like other whale species, pilot whales are highly sociable often ... He pointed to a “newly-born calf” he had spotted among the stranded group. “It was this little baby that still had ...

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 ...