For days, people along the Bolivar Peninsula have been keeping watch over a stranded shrimp boat slowly being swallowed by the Texas coast. What started Friday morning as a trawler stuck on a sandbar ...

Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a ...

A Texas hiker was rescued by first responders after being stranded overnight at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area on Saturday, May 2, according to a Facebook post from the Fredericksburg Fire EMS. The ...

An animal rescue story that has captivated readers worldwide could be on the brink of a happy ending. A barge carrying a humpback whale that's been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March ...

A stranded whale is being transported to the North Sea after being guided onto a barge as part of a bold rescue operation. The humpback, named Timmy by the public after Timmendorfer beach, has been ...

Rescuers hope to move young male humpback from Baltic to North Sea after being stranded for a month near Lübeck Timmy the whale rescue attempt begins – in pictures Rescuers trying to save a stranded ...

The plan was to lift the whale from the seabed using inflatable cushions and transport it with pontoons back to the North Sea or possibly as far as the Atlantic Ocean. Efforts to rescue a humpback ...

Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted them to the brink of extinction For weeks now, a ...

Local authorities have announced that they will cease efforts to guide a young humpback whale to its home waters. Now a restricted area has been established to allow it to "die in peace." After a week ...

In an unexpected breakthrough, the 40-foot mammal was freed and swam to deeper water on Friday morning through a channel that rescuers had dug for it. By Jenny Gross Against the odds, a 40-foot ...

A handwritten “SOS” message in the sand helped save two stranded Hawaii visitors as flash floods swept across Oahu, where Coast Guard and Navy crews also rescued five people and a dog from a rooftop.