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A melon-headed whale has died after becoming stranded on City Beach in Wollongong on Tuesday morning, July 8. Footage by ...
Melon-headed whales can be found around the world and typically reside in deep, tropical waters, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Division said.
A melon-headed whale and rough-toothed dolphin engaged in inter-species romance. Let's face it: Unlikely couples hold a special place in our hearts, whether Romeo and Juliet, Edward and Bella ...
A bottlenose dolphin is believed to have adopted a baby melon-headed whale in the first known case of its kind. In 2014, scientists noticed a bottlenose mother was caring for a peculiar-looking ...
The dolphin-whale hybridization is especially surprising in this region, as a sighting of melon-headed whales had never before been confirmed near the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) navy base.
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Marine life experts have rescued a 290-pound (132-kilogram), adult melon-headed whale that had become stuck on a Florida beach. A SeaWorld Orlando news release says the ...
Marine wildlife officials are trying to figure out what caused a melon-headed whale to beach itself on Maui. Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were notified ...
GULFPORT, Miss. --Marine experts in Mississippi are working around the clock as a mysterious pair of whales, their species unseen in south Mississippi for 40 years, fight for survival.
The animal is the first-ever documented offspring of a rough-toothed dolphin and the rare melon-headed whale, a team from the Cascadia Research Collective concluded in a report released this week.
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The melon-headed whale that was found Thursday stranded on Cat Island is showing signs of improvement. Staff members at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) in ...