A young whale whose carcass washed up in the Philippines died of "dehydration and starvation" after consuming 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of plastic bags, scientists have found. Marine biologist and ...

A young sperm whale that died after becoming stranded on a Scottish island last week had a ball of debris weighing roughly 100 kilograms (220 pounds) in its stomach, according to an organization that ...

OLYMPIA, Wash.-- Biologists who examined a gray whale that died after stranding on a West Seattle beach say it had a large amount of garbage in its stomach -- ranging from a pair of sweat pants to a ...

MILAN (AP) — An 8-meter (26-foot) sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) of plastic in its belly, prompting the World Wildlife Foundation to sound an alarm Monday over ...

He already knew how the 15-foot-long whale had died. "I knew this whale had died due to plastic ingestion," Blatchley, president and founder of the D' Bone Collector Museum, told The Washington Post, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups and flip-flops, a park official said Tuesday, ...

The Marine Mammal Stranding Center conducted a necropsy on a 20-foot minke whale that came into Barnegat Bay over the weekend. The necropsy found that the female whale was in overall thin condition.

Rob Deaville, project manager for Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL ...