More whales dead and stranded off Australia&#39;s south coast
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HOBART : A second pod of 17 whales has died in a mysterious mass beaching on King Island in the Bass Strait off Australia&#39;s south coast following the fatal stranding of 80 whales and dolphins at the weekend.
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Carcasses of dead dolphins and pilot whales strewn on a beach on Australia&#39;s King Island, off Tasmania state on Sunday. A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming onto a beach on the island where
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The rugged coastline of Tasmania was littered with the carcasses of more than 100 whales and dolphins yesterday after two separate beachings that have baffled scientists.
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Puzzled scientists are investigating the death of some 175 whales and dolphins which swam on to three beaches of southern Australia and New Zealand over the weekend.
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Rescuers have saved at least 12 pilot whales that beached themselves on Maria Island, off Tasmania&#39;s east coast. It has been an exhausting 24 hours for National Parks and Wildlife officers in Tasmania after mass strandings at Maria Island and King Island.
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have left 169 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches in the past three days. By Tuesday, 96 long-finned pilot whales and bottle-nosed dolphins had died after the first beaching on Sunday at King Island, midway.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--For the past week, residents of the Bay Area have been transfixed by the plight of the two injured humpback whales that got lost in the fresh waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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Military exercises planned by  Australia and the United States next month off the Australian  coast could result in large-scale whale deaths or injuries, the  International Whaling Commission said.
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Four endangered whales have been found dead in the past six weeks &#151; including two just this week, scientists said.
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MORE than 100 whales and dolphins died after swimming on to a beach on a southern Australian island yesterday and another 50 were at risk, a government official said.
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Photographs of a mother whale and her calf being dragged on board a Japanese ship after being harpooned in Antarctic waters have been described as sickening by Australia's environment minister.
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A second pod of 17 whales has died in a mysterious mass beaching on King Island in the Bass Strait off Australia's south coast following the fatal stranding of 80 whales and dolphins at the weekend.
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Sydney - An international animal welfare group said on Tuesday it was taking legal action against a Japanese whaling company over the deaths of more than 400 whales in Australian waters near Antarctica.
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More than 100 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia. Ninety-seven pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins died off King Island over the weekend, and several others have died off Maria Island.
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Harbour porpoises are being killed in increasing numbers by bottlenose dolphins around British coasts.
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Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings Wednesday in southern New Zealand while rescuers refloated another 15 and monitored their progress toward safer waters, conservation officials said.
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An extremely rare whale with a beak like a dolphin found dead on a Byron Bay beach has excited Australia&#39;s marine researchers.