New Zealand authorities were cutting holes in 300 whale carcasses on Monday, popping the dead animals "like balloons", to avoid them exploding as they decompose on Golden Bay after more than 600 ...

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The remains of what is believed to be a whale have washed up on a Co Waterford beach as mass beaching in Australia has claimed the lives of almost 400 whales. The Baleen Whale was discovered yesterday ...

There are few things more romantic than a dead, beached whale that's full of gas. Enter Killam as Darren, an older surfer who urges Gadget to skip the bonfire and meet him on the beach by an unusual ...

People should not approach a huge dead fin whale that has washed up on a beach on the Mizen peninsula in west Cork due to uncertainty around the cause of death, an expert has warned. Stephanie ...

Signs have gone up warning the public that the whale is now a health hazard The fin whale, which was washed up on Baile Uí Chuill strand, Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry, is now considered a health hazard.

One of the world’s rarest whales may have washed up on a New Zealand beach – providing researchers with vital information on how the creatures live. It is thought that the dead mammal which was found ...

New Zealand conservation officials and volunteers have successfully refloated one young whale from a pod of five that beached on the country's North Island. The other four, all adult whales and ...

A female whale has been washed up on a beach in Sligo. The 12 metres long sperm whale was found on Streedagh beach. Beached whale on Sligo beach - picture: Rosalie Vogt courtesy of Marie Casserly ...