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 ...

Researchers are conducting testing on a pygmy sperm whale that washed ashore in Pismo Beach last week. Officials with The ...

California State Parks spotted the 10.5-foot whale on early Valentine's Day morning and alerted the Marine Mammal Center.

Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing 157 false killer whales that stranded on a remote Australian beach.

This past weekend, the Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles (MMCC) responded to a call on a rare pygmy sperm whale ...

A whale carcass washed up on Pismo State Beach last week — and the cause of death is still unknown, according to the Marine Mammal Center. California State Parks rangers found the adult pygmy ...

A group of five pygmy killer whales appeared in the shallow waters off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kihei in early May—a worrisome and rare sight, since the species’ habitat is far offshore in ...

(CNN) - A rarely seen and little-understood species of whale washed up on a California beach. A pygmy sperm whale washed up on the shore at Pismo State Beach on Valentine’s Day. It’s exciting ...

Melon-headed whales, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Division, are small, dark mammals closely related to pygmy killer whales and false killer whales found ...

Researchers with the Marine Mammal Center and the Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit performed a necropsy on a pygmy sperm whale on Feb. 14, 2025. Emily Pomeroy with the Marine Mammal Center ...