In August 1993, Rye was abuzz with news that a pilot whale was circling Milton Harbor. Boating was stopped and a rescue team ...

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.

A female orca appeared to adopt a baby pilot whale in the first known case of its kind. Scientists observed the orca caring for the calf in western Iceland in 2021, a new study says.

Hundreds of whales stranded on New Zealand beach 00:32. A mass stranding of long-finned pilot whales in southwestern Australia led to the deaths of 29 of the beached creatures on Thursday ...

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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 ...

We don't know! But look at this pod of whales only 100m off the beach." A view of pilot whales stranded on Cheynes Beach, Australia July 25, 2023, in this still image obtained from social media video.

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 ...

Short-finned pilot whales are actually not whales. They’re dolphins; they’re in the dolphin family [ Delphinidae ]. They’re the second-largest dolphins [after] the killer whale.

Last July, a pilot whale beached itself on the shores of Dixie County in Florida. After five weeks of rehabilitation in SeaWorld Orlando, the pilot whale was finally released back into the wild.

New Zealand's Far Out Ocean Research Collective spotted a bottlenose dolphin caring for a young pilot whale, and this isn't the first time the species has stepped in as a surrogate mom.