Beached whale

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The body of a dead whale washed up on the shore of North Beach in Point Reyes National...

A dead humpback whale washed up on the shore of Rockaway Beach in New York City Tuesday morning. The 25 to 30-foot-long whale was spotted nine miles offshore Monday night.

Whales are thought to be part of same pod as another discovered on the Norfolk coast on Friday

Very high resolution satellites give scientists a new way to find out when and where a large-bodied whale, such as a humpback or a sperm, is stranded

Two weeks after a live 25,000-Pound humpback was stranded, euthanized and buried on Samoa beach, another whale has washed ashore in Humboldt County.

The eye-opening whale sculpture is filled with a mix of plastic bags, plastic containers, bottles, and other waste collected from the ocean.

In the humpback whale that stranded end of 2012 and was publically called Johanna, microplastics were found. It is the first time that microplastics were encountered in the intestinal tract of a baleen whale. Sixteen pieces of plastic were found by Ellen Besseling and colleagues from the department of Aquatic ecology and water quality management and research institute IMARES. De researchers cannot exclude that the whale had ingested more plastic, as part could be excreted during the days…

Whale was estimated to be only 18 years old

The songs of humpback, blue and other baleen whales are generated by the unusual anatomy of their larynx, according to a new paper.