After consulting with federal authorities, rescuers decided the most humane course of action was to euthanize the animal.

The team at Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder received a report of a stranded dolphin off the coast of Long Key State ...

Marine mammal responders mobilized for the report of a stranded dolphin off Long Key State Park on Jan. 12. What they found ...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, along with veterinarians and volunteers, responded to two adult pygmy killer whales stranded onshore at Sugar Beach in Kihei on Tuesday ...

Melon-headed whales, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Division, are small, dark mammals closely related to pygmy killer whales and false killer whales ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and stranded just off a beach in the island chain on Sunday, a local marine ...

The bodies of two male melon-headed whales were found 50 miles apart along the southeastern coast of the United States.

Members of the marine mammal rescue group Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys on ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and stranded just off a beach in the island chain on Sunday, a local marine mammal ...