After consulting with federal authorities, rescuers decided the most humane course of action was to euthanize the animal.

Armed with binoculars and telephoto cameras, they watch the cobalt waters for one of its great treasures - pygmy blue whales. When there is a sighting, it’s all systems go. Faustino's son ...

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The team at Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder received a report of a stranded dolphin off the coast of Long Key State ...

Marine mammal responders mobilized for the report of a stranded dolphin off Long Key State Park on Jan. 12. What they found ...

One might think that, given their massive size, blue whales would be hard to miss and easy to study. But despite being the largest animals on Earth, surprisingly little is known about how they ...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, along with veterinarians and volunteers, responded to two adult pygmy killer whales stranded onshore at Sugar Beach in Kihei on Tuesday ...

Members of the marine mammal rescue group Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys on ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and stranded just off a beach in the island chain on Sunday, a local marine ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and stranded just off a beach in the island chain on Sunday, a local marine mammal ...