Marine biologists have discovered that whales play a significant role in removing carbon from the atmosphere in recent years.

DAGUPAN CITY, PANGASINAN, Philippines — A short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) became the latest marine mammal to fall victim to plastic pollution after it ingested nearly a ...

The marine mammals stranded themselves in Hamelin Bay, 315 km south of the state’s capital, Perth, between March 22 and 23. All but six of more than 150 short-finned pilot whales that stranded ...

Many of the recorded mass strandings include long-finned or short-finned pilot whales - a species of oceanic dolphin that grows 7 metres (23 ft) long and can weigh up to 3 tonnes. Olaf Meynecke ...

On Tuesday, fisherfolks in Bolinao, Pangasinan, discovered a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) in emaciated condition, weak, and struggling to swim. It died not long after. A ...

According to Chogsayan, the short-finned pilot whale was likely already weakened by the accumulated plastic in its system and simply swallowed the nearest item, presumably the piece of hard ...

On the other hand, short-finned pilot whales prefer temperate ... Because they share their habitat range with bigger and more aggressive bear species like the grizzly bear, American black bears have ...

This extended post-reproductive lifespan is extremely rare in the animal kingdom, observed in only a handful of species including humans, short-finned pilot whales, belugas, and narwhals. Research ...

The offshore survey supports ongoing and future oceanographic surveys, habitat assessments ... including 18 unidentified whales, 87 unidentified dolphins, 84 Common Dolphins, 29 Long Finned Pilot ...

Taken together, the deaths have raised the specter of past “unusual mortality events” that caused whales to die in higher-than-normal numbers.