Ten sperm whales wash up on beach in East Yorkshire in mass stranding as rescue teams fear at least five may already be dead with the rest also expected to perish in shallow waters Humberside Police said the ten animals have been beached near Tunstall Coastguard and British Marine Life Rescue are helping with the … Read more
Whale of a find: Immaculately preserved skeleton of a 39-foot leviathan discovered in Thailand is thought to be up to 5,000 years old The remains were found near the coast in Samut Sakhon, west of Bangkok They are thought to have been from a Bryde’s whale — a species still alive today Carbon dating will be … Read more
More than 100 pilot whales – plus dolphins – die in a beaching on New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands Mass whale stranding has been discovered on remote islands 800km west of NZ Locals put on a radio call with Department of Conservation rangers responding The whales will not be removed from the beach on the … Read more
Naughty beluga whales play with a keeper by biting flippers off his feet as he tries to clean their water tank A pair of beluga whales in China had a whale of a time teasing their caretaker Funny footage shows the cheeky animals following behind the aquarium diver While the man was cleaning the enclosure, … Read more
Killer whales may be responsible for the disappearance of great white sharks in South Africa‘s waters, according to a new government report. Great whites are a big draw in Cape Town, with visitors viewing them from tour boats or protective shark cages. But their numbers have been in steep decline since at least 2017. Experts … Read more
Whales, dolphins and seals are ‘highly susceptible’ to infection from COVID-19 which could cause life-threatening liver and lung damage in the endangered animals, experts warn Researchers looked at how at-risk various marine mammals are to coronavirus Found many may be more susceptible to infection than people are Warn that it is possible animals in oceans get … Read more
A campaign led by actress Joanna Lumley is calling for unexploded WWII bombs in the seas around British to be quietly ‘burnt out’, rather than violently detonated. It is estimated that some 100,000 tonnes of unexploded wartime munitions lurk in Britain’s waters — much of which needs clearing to make way for new wind farms. However, the traditional … Read more
The Ministry of Defence is being questioned over war games it conducted off the Scottish coast after several whales washed up dead suffering from the bends. Scientists who tracked the war games, the largest in Europe, recorded an alarming number of sonar contacts over several days. The noise was so loud that on occasions members … Read more
Fin whales can swap songs with individuals migrating from other parts of the world in ‘cultural transmissions’ Researchers spent six years recording whale songs in waters around Hawaii Found fin whales are able to sing multiple songs and adopt tunes of others Migrating whales have their own songs picked up and used by others By … Read more
John Bishop’s Great Whale Rescue Rating: Who Do You Think You Are? Rating: They didn’t have all these problems with Free Willy. The Nineties movie about a boy who sets out to release a captive orca into the seas made rescuing whales look like child’s play. But the obstacles encountered by comedian John Bishop in … Read more