Scientists studying stranded pygmy sperm whales have uncovered three previously unknown genotypes of Helicobacter bacteria ...

The carcass of a pygmy sperm whale washed ashore on the ECR coast in Chennai on Thursday morning. The whale was found on the city’s shoreline by members of the public, who alerted the Forest ...

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CHENNAI: A highly decomposed carcass of the Pygmy Sperm Whale, a rare marine mammal, washed ashore on the beach at Neelankarai on Thursday morning. Chennai Wild ...

A stranded pygmy sperm whale on a beach in east Florida in 2020. Stranding response conducted under a Stranding Agreement between NMFS and FAU Harbor Branch under the authority of the MMPA.

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Loyalty to the pod has been identified by scientists as the cause of a mass stranding and death of 55 whales on the Isle of Lewis almost three years ago. As The Guardian reports, the Scottish ...

Up until a few years back, many of the pygmy blue whales migrating to the south never made it to their destinations. Many of them got killed by the heavy ship traffic on the way. Given their quiet, ...

Scuba diving in the ocean can be an otherworldly experience, as can the marvels waiting to be discovered. Imagine swimming ...

Being able to swim with majestic, highly intelligent, 40-foot-long, 40-ton sperm whales in the open ocean close to the lush island of Dominica is not new. In fact, there are roughly 200 resident ...

Results of a partial necropsy and tissue tests taken from the sperm whale that washed up on Nantucket's south shore late last ...