False killer whales - which are in fact a dolphin - are typically deep-sea dwellers, and are one of the rarest marine mammals ...

A young pygmy killer whale — a rare type of dolphin — was recently rescued after becoming stranded on a shore in South America. The incident occurred on March 18 in Buxton, Guyana — a small town ...

An account of the stranding of a school of 167 false killer dolphins off the northern coast of Ceylon is now in the press and will be published in the Ceylon Journal of Science (Sec. B).

Boaters in the eastern Mediterranean Sea recently happened upon a rare pod of false killer whales, video footage shows. A group of friends were sailing near Tel Aviv, Israel, in the early morning ...

The animals were continuously restranding. False killer whales are actually one of the largest members of the dolphin family. This is the first stranding by false killer whales in Tasmania since 1974.

Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate with each other using high-pitched clicks and whistles. They are very intelligent because they have to work together to ...