Timmy the whale, recently deceased, could explode soon. “The pressure inside is building up more and more, and at some point ...

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The whale appeared to be unharmed by the collision, which was captured on video. By John S.W. MacDonald A personal watercraft struck an adult gray whale that had just breached off Vancouver, British ...

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A fin whale stranded on a Samish Island beach near Bellingham died Tuesday morning, bringing Washington state’s whale death toll to 18 so far this year, researchers said. The male is the first fin ...

A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said. Nicknamed Timmy by German media, ...

The humpback whale, stuck for weeks in shallow waters off Germany, was towed to the North Sea in a barge. The story captivated the country. By Jenny Gross A humpback whale that was stranded for weeks ...

BERLIN — A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said. Subscribe to read this ...

When humpback whales eat, they often open their massive jaws to scoop up huge mouthfuls of water, filled with krill or small fish, before they filter out the excess liquid through their baleen plates, ...

In early March, a young male humpback whale appeared where humpback whales are not supposed to be: in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Wismar, in northern Germany. The animal—forty feet long and ...

(CNN) — Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks ...

In a prime instance of a “funny in a vacuum but probably less amusing when it happens to you” headline, dozens of Americans have apparently been getting hit square in the face by the exploding, ...