The Department of Conservation (DOC) has floated a whale back out to sea after it stranded on Auckland's St Heliers Beach.

HOBART, Australia (AP) — More pilot whales have been found stranded in Australia, raising the estimated total to almost 500, including 380 that have died. It's one of the largest mass strandings ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As many as 55 pilot whales washed up on Farewell Spit, on New Zealand’s southern island - Reuters A rescue mission has been ...

Rob Deaville, project manager for Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said the decomposed whale "must have re-floated" and was found again at ...

Pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) are among the ocean's most enigmatic inhabitants—rarely seen and largely unstudied. They live far offshore in small groups, diving in search of squid and fish.

ALASKA -- An orca that became stranded on a rocky beach in Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Thursday morning was freed with the help of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and ...

HOBART, Australia — Officials say around one third of an estimated 270 pilot whales that became stranded on Australia’s island state of Tasmania have died. The whales were discovered Monday on a beach ...