For baleen whales, singing songs is essential, but it also comes with risks. Killer whales, their primary natural predators, are intelligent and highly skilled hunters. Yet, despite their sharp senses ...

Almost 100 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands. Conservation officers said they were notified about the incident on Sunday but by the time they ...

Pilot whales are a species of the dolphin family ... stated Vanessa Pirotta of the Marine Predator Research Group at Macquarie University in an interview with Newsweek.

Ten pilot whales refloated from a Golden Bay beach Tuesday night have restranded. The Department of Conservation (DOC) says rescuers are heading to the beach at Taupata Point, near Pakawau. The whales ...

Last week, 55 pilot whales washed up on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, a remote Scottish island. In the Falkland Islands pilot whales also stranded in several incidents.

Being as large as they are, whales have few natural predators. The only creatures in the sea able to attack them effectively are sharks and orcas. Even then, they prefer to kill baby whales (calves), ...

But of particular interest to PhD student Isabella Reeves are the interactions between killer whales and white sharks. Several reports suggest that these apex predators are increasingly targeting ...

Volunteers, Department of Conservation staff, Project Jonah members and mana whenua will spend another day trying to keep stranded whales alive in Golden Bay. One of two pods of pilot whales ...

A pod of 10 pilot whales stranded in Golden Bay have been re-floated into deep water on Wednesday. The group of eleven whales were first stranded on Monday near Taupata Point, with one dying, But ...

Fewer vessels will be required to reduce their speed, which is likely to contribute to the extinction of the North Atlantic right whale, a species that is vulnerable to extinction and classified as ...

Project Jonah was called to reports of up to 30 pilot whales coming on-shore about 7pm Saturday. Local medics and the senior Project Jonah team stayed with the whales until last light. It was the ...