The discovery of the body ended months of a spectacular and contentious rescue effort that culminated May 2, when the mammal was transported toward the North Sea in a barge in the final rescue attempt ...

Timmy the humpback whale's bloated carcass. Timmy the whale, recently deceased, is at risk of exploding soon. The young humpback whale that first captured the internet's attention after becoming ...

Rescue teams in northern Germany are making urgent efforts to refloat a humpback whale that has become stranded in shallow waters of the Baltic Sea. The situation is critical as rescuers race against ...

The fate of an injured and wayward humpback whale captivated people around the world since March. The whale got stranded along Germany's Baltic coast. There was a dramatic rescue effort to tow him ...

German rescuers on Tuesday hauled a stranded humpback whale into a special boat due to carry it to deeper waters, in the latest attempt to free the cetacean whose ordeal has captured hearts in Germany ...

A whale found dead last week was confirmed to be the same one at the heart of a rescue controversy. Initial rescue efforts had failed after the whale was spotted in the Baltic Sea, far from its normal ...

Millionaires step in to rescue a stranded whale, sparking viral reactions online. Here’s what happened, why it matters, and why people are divided. Two millionaires are funding a last-chance rescue ...

Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

The humpback whale that kept Germany spellbound for months likely lived for roughly five days after the final controversial rescue attempt failed to guide it back to its natural habitat in ...