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A sailor died in Australia after a whale struck and flipped his boat
A witness told 9 News he had heard a big bang and saw the boat capsize and "something big" emerge f…
Lara O'Reilly
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After a failed rescue attempt, Australia euthanized 43 whales that were stranded on the beach for 2 days
Australian officials decided to euthanize the whales after a two-day ordeal where they were strande…
Sinéad Baker
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Japan's 'Big Whale' submarines add another weapon to bottle up China's navy
Japan's new "Big Whale" submarines carry the advanced capabilities that make them powerful threats …
Ben Brimelow
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The death of an endangered fin whale was a marine murder mystery. Now, we have a suspect: orcas.
Bite marks have revealed the likely culprit in an endangered fin whale's death earlier this month.
Paul Squire
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Orcas observed devouring the tongue of a blue whale just before it dies in first documented hunt of the largest animal on the planet
The Western Australia study filmed orcas — also known as killer whales — preying on blu…
Bethany Dawson
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Photos show the tragic mass stranding event the killed a super pod of 200 whales in Australia
Experts suspect that the super pod of pilot whales chased its squid prey into the shallow waters at…
Bethany Dawson
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A professor trying to solve the death of a beached sperm whale ended up discovering 21 pounds of whale vomit worth half a million dollars
Ambergris, found in around one in 100 sperm whales, is a rare substance that's valued in the perfum…
Matthew Loh
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Scientists studied social media videos of whales rubbing seaweed on their skin and concluded they're probably exfoliating
Videos show baleen whales across the world play with kelp out in the open ocean. Scientists says th…
Maiya Focht
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An orca species that helped humans hunt whales for thousands of years may now be extinct, new research reveals
For thousands of years, Thaua hunters in eastern Australia hunted whales with the help of orcas.
Katie Hawkinson
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In Australia, several stranded pilot whales will be euthanised as it is "the most humane thing to do"
Several pilot whales currently stranded off the west coast of Australia's Tasmania will be euthanis…
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A breaching whale landed on a boat, injuring a teen and leaving him in critical condition
The Marine Area Command for Australia's New South Wales Police Force said an 18-year-old was "criti…
Sinéad Baker
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Whales swimming behind fishing vessels catch an easy feast of escaped fish, but experts warn this 'free meal' is risky, potentially lethal behavior
Experts say more whales are following fishing boats to catch dinner. But this behavior puts both th…
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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At least 270 pilot whales are stranded at sandbanks in Australia — and a third of them have already died
“While strandings are not uncommon in Tasmania, and while strandings of this scale aren’t (u…
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Orcas killed a great white shark for its liver in Australia, scientists confirmed, leaving the sharks one less place to hide
A great white shark washed up on an Australian beach and scientists detected orca DNA in its remain…
Sonam Sheth
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A British cruise ship operator apologized after passengers watched 78 dolphins get slaughtered, part of the centuries-old whaling tradition of the Faroe Islands
"We were incredibly disappointed that this hunt occurred at the time that our ship was in port," Tw…
Reena Koh
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Incredible photos show the killing of a blue whale by a pod of orcas, documenting for the first time the largest animal on the planet being hunted
The Western Australia study is a unique record of orcas — also known as killer whales —…
Bethany Dawson
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Almost 200 whales have died on a beach in Tasmania, and one photo shows the scale of the mass stranding
Only 35 of the stranded whales have survived. In 2020, some 470 whales were stranded in the same lo…
Marielle Descalsota
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Nearly 500 pilot whales died after getting beached in 2 stranding incidents in New Zealand over the past week
The New Zealand conservation department said the whales were euthanized rather than re-floated, and…
Cheryl Teh
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Sharks are among a group of animals with a 6th sense that humans don't have - they use Earth's magnetic field to navigate
A new study suggests sharks use the magnetic field to orient themselves on long migrations. They're…
Aylin Woodward
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Whales can learn about danger and can warn each other, according to a study of how they dodged whaling ships in the 19th century
The findings provide clues about how whales pass information between groups, and could be an exampl…