Volunteers at Farewell Spit are racing against time to get 15 live whales back into sea.

A rescue mission has been launched to save a pod of whales stranded on a remote New Zealand beach. Some 55 pilot whales washed up on Farewell Spit, on the country’s southern island on Thursday, with ...

The large majority of about 50 pilot whales stranded across Farewell Spit near Nelson have returned to sea, and efforts continue to refloat the rest.

A stranded long-finned pilot whale was euthanized in Sea Bright after attempts to return it to the ocean failed. The whale, a 15-foot male, was found stranded in the surf and deemed too weak to ...

Six pilot whales are dead and 15 others are stranded on New Zealand's South Island, and volunteers are furiously working to save them.

Scientists have identified two unknown circoviruses in short-finned pilot whales and orcas living in the Caribbean region of ...

HOBART, Australia -- Around 200 whales have died and just 35 remain alive following a mass stranding in Australia this week, rescue teams say. The pilot whales were found Wednesday stranded on an ...

An adult pilot whale needs about 142 squid a day to meet its energy requirements, according to a new University of Hawaii study. Hawaii’s population of pilot whales is unique because they do not ...

Short-finned pilot whales consume between 82 and 202 of the marine molluscs each every day off the coast of Hawai’i, according to the study. An international research team - made up of scientists from ...

Here’s some important life advice: do not try to challenge a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) to a squid-eating contest. Research out today shows that these marine mammals can ...