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Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) on Saturday reported a fatal boat incident in Sydney.

Researchers found a new species of early odontocete, or toothed whale, that swam along the North Pacific coastline around 28 million years ago.

A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii likely died because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing nets, plastic bags and other marine debris, highlighting the threat to wildlife from the millions of tons of plastic that ends up in oceans every year.

A 40-foot sperm whale that beached on Oregon’s northwestern coast was killed after being struck by a ship

Marine animal welfare officials say the most recent whale found dead on a New Jersey shoreline had apparently been struck by a vessel.

Egyptian scientists say the fossil of a four-legged prehistoric whale, unearthed over a decade ago in the country’s Western Desert.