Seven stranded rough-toothed dolphins swam to freedom 14 miles (22 km) offshore in the Florida Straits on Tuesday as rescue volunteers released them back into deep waters after two months of rehabilitation.
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A 7.19m male basking shark was seen in Ardmine bay, near Courtown, Co. Wexford on 28th April thrashing in the shallows. Images in strandings section. Locals kept a watchful eye on the shark and at high tide it was approx 10 metres from the rocky shore when a large gash was noticed close to its
Norwegian fishermen harpooned 25 whales in the first week of the country’s much condemned whaling season that this year allows the biggest hunting quota for more than 10 years, a whalers’ spokesman said on Monday.
Sightings of basking sharks and a variety of cetacean species continue with relative ease from west Kerry headlands….
An American palaeontologist and a team of Egyptians have found the most nearly complete fossilised skeleton of the primitive whale Basilosaurus isis in Egypt’s Western Desert, a university spokesman said on Monday.
There have been a number of whale sightings reported to the IWDG from Tory Island, Co. Donegal. The most recent was on 13th April of a large whale, whose description best matches that of a humpback whale. The 1st report on 21st March was of a group of five whales. It was not possible to
Whale watchers gathered on the banks of the Delaware River on Thursday hoping to catch a rare glimpse of a beluga whale, thousands of miles from its Arctic home.
English police are hunting the killers of porpoises that were shot and battered to death in a spate of attacks along the coast of northeast England. Times UK
Japan is set to expand its annual whale hunt to take two new species as well as nearly doubling its planned catch of minke whales, media reports said on Tuesday, a move virtually certain to spark global fury if true.
On April 12th 2005 at 9.00 AM Dr Chris Smeenk, curator of mammals, got a phone call that a large whale was found stranded at Ameland. This is one of the Dutch Wadden Islands in the north of the country.