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.

A total of 108 surviving pilot whales have been released back into the sea after a mass stranding in Australia, marine experts say. They believe Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's west coast is now ...

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 ...

The name of the vessel is the Tasmania. All the women and children among the passengers have been safely landed. The majority of the passengers are still on board. Assistance has gone to the ...

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.

"We think this is similar to the mass stranding in Tasmania in September." The beaching of 470 pilot whales in a remote harbor in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania was the country's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...