According to The Virginian-Pilot, critically endangered North Atlantic ... conducted a survey to collect data about whale habitats and potential protection areas. "These whales are venturing ...

And on the other side of the Atlantic, an entire pod of 77 pilot whales washed up on a beach in Orkney off the northeastern coast of Scotland, one of the largest mass strandings recorded in decades.

Pilot whales are particularly vulnerable to mass stranding. Periodically, groups of these relatively large black whales appear near shore well away from their normal deepwater habitats ...

Fifty-one pilot whales have died after becoming stranded on a beach on the Chatham Islands off New Zealand. The mass stranding means more than 200 whales have died in separate incidents over the ...