Whale beachings stump officials
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Scientists and wildlife officials are continuing to search for what may have caused a series of mass strandings which have left 169 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches in the past three days.
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Twenty adult female sperm whales have been found washed up on a remote Australian beach but wildlife officials on Tuesday were unable to explain the third such mass stranding in the same area in a month.
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More than 90 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beaching incidents in Tasmania. (Photo: Mavis Burgess)ABC TV. Twenty-one whales beached at Maria Island off Tasmania&#39;s east coast are back at sea and
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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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Environmentalists again clashed with Japanese whalers Tuesday in the Antarctic Ocean, with Greenpeace activists failing in a risky attempt to prevent the fleet's factory ship from refueling.
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BRISBANE, Australia - The body of a whale resembling a giant dolphin that washed up on an eastern Australian beach has intrigued local scientists, who agreed Wednesday that it is rare but are not sure just how rare.
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Rescuers were encouraged by the progress two lost whales have made toward their ocean home but were concerned about encounters the two might have with large ships as they near San Francisco Bay.
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Anti-whaling protesters lost in the  Southern Ocean on Friday after a clash with a Japanese whaling  ship tied their damaged boat to an iceberg for protection from  icy winds as they drifted in fog, media reported.
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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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The U.S. Coast Guard has been unable to find a whale carcass reported early Friday by a fishing boat just outside the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
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Animal activists who attacked a Japanese whaling boat with acid were lost for hours in bad weather off Antarctica before being rescued, ironically with the Japanese vessel's help.
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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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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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Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings Wednesday in southern New Zealand while rescuers monitored progress of 15 others toward safer waters, conservation officials said.
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Near 100 whales and dolphines have commited mysterious &quot;mass beaching suicide&quot; from last week on Australia&#39;s south coast.
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Villagers at a small northern Spanish fishing port started the New Year with a whale of a problem after a 50 ton cetacean washed up on their beach.
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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.