Rescuers were trying to save the few remaining long-finned pilot whales still floundering in shallow waters off the Australian coast on Friday in one of the world's biggest mass whale strandings.

The majority of a 470-strong pod of pilot whales found stranded off Australia's remote southern coast has died, officials said on Wednesday, as rescuers struggled in freezing waters and fading light ...

Seeing these dead beasts suspended by their tails elicited a "gallows-like" feeling, he recounts, but not fear. Sharks were ...

The nation’s police ministers have accused the Albanese government of fuelling Australia’s surging black market tobacco trade through relentless tax hikes, demanding Canberra take responsibility for a ...

A “heavily entangled” humpback whale was rescued off the coast of Australia during a “complex” operation, video footage shows. Screengrab from Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia A humpback ...

About 25 million years ago, the warm, shallow seas off the southern coast of Australia were home to a bountiful scene of ocean-dwelling creatures. “In these seas, there was this extraordinary ...

An extraordinary fossil find along Victoria’s Surf Coast has revealed Janjucetus dullardi, a sharp-toothed, dolphin-sized predator that lived 26 million years ago. With large eyes, slicing teeth, and ...

Long before the ocean’s largest filter-feeders roamed the seas, their smaller, sharper cousins ruled the warm shallows. One such predator, newly named Janjucetus dullardi, offers a striking glimpse ...

In 1970, officials in Florence, Oregon, tried to dispose of a beached whale using dynamite—sparking one of the strangest and most infamous events in news history. Marjorie Taylor Greene Responds to ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...