Plastic waste drifting in the oceans misleads whales, which rely on echolocation in deep waters to find food. Scientific ...

Plastic waste drifting in the oceans can mislead whales, which use echolocation in deep waters to locate food. Scientific ...

To whales that hunt with soundwaves in lightless ocean depths, a torn plastic party balloon and a delicious squid may appear ...

A team has examined the whale that washed up on a beach A whale that beached and died on a remote cove did not have any plastic in its stomach, tests have found. The 19.25m (63ft) fin whale was ...

Almost 150 whales die on New Zealand beach Whale 'had 115 plastic cups' in stomach Edda Elisabet Magnusdottir, a marine biologist and whale expert, told Iceland Monitor that when such mammals ...

Samples of plastic beach trash collected in Beaufort and Atlantic Beach, North Carolina and then subjected to underwater acoustic testing. Echo-locating whales may not be able to tell the difference ...

This was the heartbreaking scene as rescuers desperately battled to save 55 pilot whales which beached themselves on Cape Cod yesterday. As temperatures soared into the 80s, scores of volunteers ...

Ten whales beached themselves on Sugar Beach on Thursday. Six were coaxed back out to sea, four were euthanized. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries permit No. 18786 photo ...

A council responsible for moving a dead whale from a beach has said it would be "too dangerous" to attempt the operation. The 16ft (5m) minke whale has been beached at Saltwick Bay, near Whitby ...

A council responsible for moving a dead whale from a beach has said it would be "too dangerous" to attempt the operation. The 16ft (5m) minke whale has been beached at Saltwick Bay, near Whitby, since ...