Critics often point to disturbing images of the hunts, which take place in shallow bays where whales are herded and killed ...

Long-finned pilot whales, which are technically a species of dolphin, are a medium-sized marine mammal that dwells in the North Atlantic, known for their bulbous head and sickle-shaped flippers ...

Orcas, often considered the apex predators of the ocean, are known to fear pilot whales,one of the ocean's most unexpected rivalries. This fascinating behavior raises the question: Why would these ...

A pod of more than 50 pilot whales has died after a mass stranding on a northwestern Scottish island, according to a marine charity on the ground.. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), which ...

More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast have returned to sea while 31 died on the shore, according to a researcher. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. For the first time, a team of whale experts have recorded an orca caring for the offspring of another species, a long-finned pilot whale infant.

Then, almost a year later, on June 20, 2023, a pilot whale calf was again spotted within a group of orcas. As before, this group of orcas was known to the team as herring specialists.

Four pilot whales that had been stranded on a Massachusetts beach have been euthanized, according to conservationists. The health of the whales had "greatly declined" after three days of being ...

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 ...

Dead pilot whales lie on a beach following a mass stranding on Sanday island, part of Scotland's northern Orkney archipelago, July 11, 2024, as seen in a ...

More than 50 pilot whales died on Sunday after they were stranded along a beach on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland. It was the largest mass stranding event in Britain since 2011, marine ...

New Zealand has recorded more than 5,000 whale strandings since 1840. The largest pilot whale stranding was of an estimated 1,000 whales at the Chatham Islands in 1918, according to the Department ...