Learn all about the unmistakable pilot whale, from their diet and size to life in the pod and why, sadly, they're prone to ...

Four pods of whales, totaling about 160 pilot whales, washed up on the beaches of Western Australia. More than 100 volunteers hit the sand to help the marine mammals find their way back home.

Killer whales are among the oceans’ top predators. But in Iceland, pilot whales have them running scared. Filipa Samarra This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and ...

Dozens of pilot whales have died in Western Australia after a large pod became stranded on a beach Tuesday. Out of the more than 90 whales that were stranded, more than half have died as officials ...

Read full article: Trump taps Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell for assistant secretary of defense The Capitol dome from the north side of the complex in Austin on March 18, 2025. PERTH – Volunteers worked ...

LONDON, July 17 – More than 50 pilot whales have died in Scotland after being stranded on a beach on the Isle of Lewis — the largest mass stranding in the country in decades. Authorities were alerted ...

Only one pilot whale survived out of the 55 beached on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland on Sunday. It was the largest mass stranding in the region in over a decade. By Chang Che More than 50 ...

London — A dozen whales that initially survived a mass stranding this week off the northeast coast of Scotland had to be euthanized, a British marine life rescue charity has said. A total of 77 ...

An unusual encounter with a group of orcas near Iceland led researchers to discover a new and complex behaviour - they had taken in baby pilot whales, and not necessarily to eat them. Scientists ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

Researchers studying Caribbean whales and orcas have discovered two new viruses not previously observed in these animals. The ...