Timmy the whale, recently deceased, could explode soon. “The pressure inside is building up more and more, and at some point the animal could explode with a huge bang,” whale researcher Fabian Ritter told dpa.

A rescue team has released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said.

The humpback whale first entered shallow water at the end of March, but its health deteriorated over the past few weeks. Experts have criticized efforts to rescue the animal, which may have done more

Scientists said that Timmy, an ailing humpback whale, should be left to die in peace. Instead, a motley crew of veterinarians, millionaires, a celebrity biologist, and a YouTuber set out to rescue him.

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro — A false killer whale that had been stranded along the shoreline of Barangay Navotas in this city for nearly three days successfully returned to the sea, local authorities said on Friday.

Since March, the world has watched live as a humpback whale lay stranded on a sandbank in German waters, far from the North Sea. The stranded humpback whale was found in poor health, tangled in fishing gear with telltale cuts from a ship strike on its back.