The reason for the stranding is unknown, but whale strandings are not uncommon in Tasmania Some fourteen sperm whales have died in a mass stranding on a beach in west Tasmania, Australia. The ...
At least a third of 270 whales stranded off Tasmania have died and more are feared to be dying, rescuers in Australia say. The mass stranding on the west coast of the island was discovered on Monday.
more than 200 pilot whales became beached near Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's west coast. The mass stranding occurred almost two years to the day after a separate event in the same area ...
Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales are on alert after wild weather. It is the second mass whale stranding reported in Tasmania in two days. The 14 sperm whale carcasses were found by locals in ...
The department said it is not unusual for sperm whales to be sighted in Tasmania. The pilot whale is notorious for stranding in mass numbers, for reasons that are not entirely understood.
Rescuers are trying to free a pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded off the Australian island of Tasmania ... The largest mass stranding in modern recorded history was 1,000 whales on the ...
only two weeks after a similarly unexplained mass stranding had already killed dozens of the long-finned cetaceans.
HONOLULU Five whales died, including four that were euthanized, after a mass stranding Thursday on a Maui beach. Hours later, a whale calf believed to belong to the same social group was found ...
The Department of Conservation has documented historical instances, with the most significant being the 1918 mass stranding involving around 1,000 pilot whales. Despite strides in understanding ...
Less than two weeks after the mass stranding of pilot whales on Lewis, two Northern bottlenose whales were found stranded in the Firth of Forth at Low Valleyfield. British Divers Marine Life ...
LONDON (Reuters) - 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 ...
The mass pilot whale stranding on the Isle of Lewis is the biggest one ever in Scotland, an expert has said. Dr Andrew Brownlow from the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) told BBC ...