The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and an international coalition of animal protection and environmental groups are calling ...

The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Baumgartner, now a Ph.D. student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, suddenly realized she was seeing an entirely different species: a baby pilot whale. She and her team observed ...

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 ...

More than 30 pilot whales stranded on a New Zealand beach were successfully returned to the sea thanks to a collaborative effort by locals and conservation workers, who used sheets to refloat the ...

Tasmania's west coast has again been the site of a whale rescue, after a pod of pilot whales entered Macquarie Harbour and some of them beached, with fears they would all get stranded. A cruise ...

Last Monday and Tuesday, those aboard the 7 Seas Whale Watch’s Privateer IV were greeted to a sight many captains and naturalists had not seen in more than 10 years: long-finned pilot whales ...

A mass stranding of pilot whales on the shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, around the turn of the 20th century; Two men and a woman stand amongst a pod of stranded pilot whales, circa 1940s. Image ...

160 pilot whales, mainly adult females with several young calves, stranded themsleves in shallow waters on Thursday morning in Western Australia. Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia via ...

A mass stranding of long-finned pilot whales in southwestern Australia led to the deaths of 29 of the beached creatures on Thursday, officials said. Another 100 or so of the whales were rescued ...