Tag: strandings

A high number of gray whale strandings in recent years, likely related to climate change and malnutrition, has resulted in declines in this population of marine mammals and fewer calves...

The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center is responding to a growing number of common dolphin sightings and strandings, including five deaths. The sightings are unusual, the aquarium says, since...

Biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are tracking an unusual spike in gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) strandings along the Pacific Coast. Three gray whales have been reported in...

Officials believe red tide is likely behind the death of more than 22 bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) that washed up dead on Southwest Florida beaches last month. Officials with the...

Volunteers in Washington state have reported an unusually high number of dead sea lions washing up on beaches in Puget Sound, many of which have been shot. At least 16...

Sea turtle strandings are common on New England beaches in the fall as plummeting water temperatures bring “cold-stunned” turtles to shore. But biologists say an unusually high number of sea...