A dead sperm whale washed ashore with a shocking amount of plastic waste in its stomach, including everyday items like flip-flops, drinking cups, and plastic bags. This disturbing discovery ...

When an emaciated dwarf sperm whale calf washed ashore on a Florida beach last month, officials brought the distressed mammal to veterinarians for further examination. On Thursday, the St. Johns ...

A dead whale with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach has been discovered off the coast of the Philippines. Marine biologist Darrell Blatchley was called to recover the 4.7m Cuvier’s beaked ...

A young sperm whale beached in Beaufort County may have been starving. Scientists are working to determine what made the ...

Officials completed Tuesday a necropsy and preliminary analysis on the carcass of a juvenile male sperm whale that stranded ...

“The plastic [waste were] already blackened, suggesting these had been lodged in the stomach ... finned pilot whale was likely already weakened by the accumulated plastic in its system and ...

A report by the National Geographic said Darrell Blatchley, the marine mammal expert who recovered the dead whale’s body, found almost 40 kilos of plastic waste that was “hard and compacted as a ...

Scientists believe the plastic shard (right) found in the gut of a Rice’s whale caused stomach bleeding and emaciation, leading to its death. It and a plate of baleen are on display at the ...