When scientists label a whale’s death as part of an unusual mortality event, or UME, that doesn’t mean that the whale’s cause ...

A rarely seen species of whale became stranded alive on a North Carolina island, only to perish before help could arrive, ...

The whale had never been seen in the wild, and finding a recently deceased adult male meant that, for the first time, scientists could examine the species — an animal around the size of an oversized ...