Whale news headlines

It is believed to be the biggest mass stranding in the UK for decades.

A group of cave explorers in the US spotted something unusual as they moved down an underground funnel.

The findings signalled a decline in "environmental stressors" partly due to the country being under lockdown at that time.

The adult humpback was first spotted struggling in the water a week ago.

Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world's largest mammals. But he doesn't want to protect them. He wants to hunt them.

The distressed whale was first reported to Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday when it was spotted near Fremantle.

The people had to be picked up by a passing oil tanker summoned by the rescuers, and their boat later sank.

Scientists will determine whether the rare sei whale was already dead when it was struck by the ship.

Dozens of whales died after another mysterious mass beaching on the Western Australian coast.

It was a heartbreaking scene, 160 whales flailing in the shallows, thrashing and blowing air as they were clearly in distress.

Distressing sight as ocean mammal drags gill net and buoys on 8000-kilometre annual migration.

A new report claims he could have died tangled in a shark net that went missing in 2021.

Authorities said the beached whale was very thin and was relatively close to shore, indicating he wasn't healthy.

Law enforcement officials say wildlife crews are working to free a sperm whale beached off Venice, Florida, but hope is fading.

The company was told to vacate the property by April 21, according to the letter from the mayor's office.

Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but knowing the mechanics behind that has been a mystery. Until now.

A 'pink liquid bubbling up' from a buried whale carcass is making Christchurch locals feel sick

The carcass is feared to attract sharks close to the shores with beaches along the coast forced to shut.

A 19-million-year-old bone from South Australia is changing our understanding of whale evolution.

Authorities have removed the 40-tonne carcus by towing it 13 kilometres away to an industrial jetty.

The DBCA closed Rockingham Beach early this morning to try and get the whale to safety, it will remain closed as authorities try to move the carcass.

A 16-metre-long dead fin whale washed up on a US beach over the weekend and officials said there was no obvious sign of the cause of death.

The whale was first spotted at Port Beach on Saturday, before it was hit by a boat at Fish Rocks. It's now stranded at Naval Memorial Park at Perth's Rockingham Foreshore.

The whale carcasses must remain on the sand at Bryans Beach, with the public urged to keep clear.

Jason Breen was dragged below the surface of the water from the impact of being hit by the large animal and his ankle rope snapped.

From prehistoric animals unknown to human eyes, to mamals great and small; these are the winners of a prestigious award for 2023.

A humpback whale has been freed after getting entangled in a buoy rope in the Tasman Sea.

The whales swam around the kayakers who were close to the shore of Maroubra Beach just before 6am.

The gator had "basically no chance" of surviving in the wild with the radical injury.

Kept in captivity for more than half a century, an American orca died on Friday in Miam at the Miami Seaquarium as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park in the near future.

Experts are investigating how the whale became trapped.

Much about the tiny species remains a mystery, but scientists are one step closer to solving the little "enigmas".

The discovery of a whale carcass in Hong Kong waters on Monday sparked an outpouring of grief on social media, with many comments blaming the mammal's death on sightseers.

But even as rescue efforts continue, rare footage captured just before the beaching is being hailed as 'scientific gold'.

An Alaska man on a paddleboard escaped a close encounter with a humpback whale, not even getting wet.

But the very close encounter did not stop there as the "whale highway" is in full swing.

It's understood the carcass that washed into the area was a juvenile.

The whole pod may have followed a female whale onto the beach when she had problems giving birth.

A windswept Arctic fox, a murmuration of birds facing a snowstorm in the Himalayas, and a man and a boy in a flooded living room are among the images recognized in this year's Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's Environmental Photography Award.

Incredible drone footage has captured the moment "about 50" sharks descended, prompting authorities to issue a warning.

Footage of what appears to be a white whale swimming of the coast of Queensland could be famous white humpback Migaloo, whale experts say - or it could be another rare white whale.

Marine rescue boats from Newcastle and Lake Macquarie have been called to help free the whale stuck off the coast of Norah Head.

A pod of whales has been spotted frolicking off Bondi Beach this morning.

SeaWorld and local fisheries worked from 6.00 this morning to free the animal.

A total of 23 humpback whales have been stranded so far in 2023, including five in New York and seven in New Jersey.

Marine Rescue NSW volunteers from Port Kembla are working to free the "entangled whale" near Five Islands this morning.

The white cetacean with the strange brown harness has spent the last three years tracking around Norway, and has dramatically increased speed.

Central Coast locals have sighted a blue whale, an experience so rare experts say only six others have been seen off the east coast of Australia in a century.

Humpback whales use sandy and shallow bays to exfoliate dead skin cells off themselves by rolling around in the sand, research from Griffith University suggests.

Researchers have discovered a new way to gain important insights into the behavioural ecology of whales.