HOBART, Australia, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Eleven pilot whales out of a large pod that stranded on a beach in Tasmania were successfully returned to the ocean Sunday.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Rescue workers Saturday night were trying to save 13 distressed pilot whales stranded on the Australian island of Tasmania, an official said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Federal researchers said they're trying to figure out why beluga whales are dying in Alaska's Cook Inlet.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Cook Inlet beluga whale population near Anchorage, Alaska, was placed on the U.S. endangered list, federal marine officials said Friday.
HOUSTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a $9 million, five-year study shows endangered Gulf of Mexico sperm whales are minimally affected by oil and gas exploration.
MONTREAL, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Scientists say they believe a huge swath of red algae in the St. Lawrence River is killing marine mammals, including the threatened beluga whale.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Canadian fishery officials say cell phone users are helping safeguard three pods of endangered killer whales in the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia.
SEATTLE, June 4 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say the Makah Indian Tribe is seeking federal permission to continue limited hunting of eastern North Pacific gray whales.
WOODS HOLE, Mass., April 29 (UPI) -- U.S. marine scientists say they've established a network of electronic buoys along Massachusetts Bay's shipping lanes to protect endangered right whales.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., March 16 (UPI) -- The rope lodged in the jaws of two right whales spotted off Massachusetts does not put the endangered animals at any immediate risk, researchers say.
WAIROA , New Zealand, March 13 (UPI) -- A New Zealand conservation official said two pygmy sperm whales that would not leave shallow water were finally led to safety by a friendly wild dolphin.
COCOA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Cocoa Beach, Fla., had to be called in to shoo away surfers who paddled too close to two endangered North Atlantic right whales this week.
ATLANTA, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Veterinarians at the Georgia Aquarium are trying to determine what has sickened Marina, a 25-year-old beluga whale.
TOKYO, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The Japanese whaling fleet has reportedly postponed this year's whale hunt until after Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's meeting with President George W. Bush.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard has warned mariners to take care to avoid hitting whales, after three whales were killed off the California coast.
