Pilot whales die in mass stranding
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Science & environment: Fifteen pilot whales die mass stranding on a New Zealand beach, and 15 more are still at risk
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Description: A Coast Guard helicopter goes down in the Bering Sea, leaving six missing near the Aleutian Islands. The helicopter was transferring crew members from a freighter that had run aground, spreading
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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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More than half of about 500 whales killed by Japan in Antarctic waters during the last southern summer were pregnant, the Humane Society International (HSI) charged Tuesday.
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An injured whale died Sunday after beaching itself in the same spot off Malaysia's coast for the second time in as many days, news reports said Monday.
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HOBART, Australia  - About 100 whales and dolphins died after beaching on a southern Australian island Sunday and about 50 more were still at risk, a government official said.
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VICTORIA, British Columbia -- Four people, dozens of dogs and cats, 11 porpoises and a horse have died from a rare tropical fungus since it was detected on Vancouver Island in 1999, a study has concluded.
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Rescuers said they were not confident the last three whales of a pod of more than 70 that beached on New Zealand's east coast since Sunday night could be saved.
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Sperm whales routinely dive more than two miles below the ocean surface to hunt for giant squid, but a study shows the huge mammals suffer a chronic loss of bone tissue from the bends, a painful condition well-known to human divers.
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Marine biologist Dr Rosemary Gales inspects a dead dolphin 29 November 2004 on King Island in Bass Strait off Australia&#39;s south coast where 80 whales and dolphins died after stranding themselves.
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Millions of anchovies &#151; a protected species in Europe &#151; have died in northern Spain after an unexplained mass beaching, officials said Friday.
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Dozens of whales and dolphins mysteriously beached themselves on an Australian island on Sunday, state government officials said. Some 72 pilot whales and 30 bottle nose dolphins died at Sea Elephant Bay on
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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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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.
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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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Humpback whales are safe Â at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
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The unusually swollen tongue of a dead humpback whale may indicate that it perished after colliding with a ship in the waters of southeast Alaska, scientists said Monday.