Two species of seal live in the UK all year round – the grey seal and the harbour seal. These earless seals are found around much of our coastline and sometimes venture into our rivers too. The grey ...

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A team of marine wildlife rescuers is battling against time to try to save a fin whale stranded at a beach in the South West. The whale, understood to be a young, was discovered in the shallows in the ...

A whale calf has been put down after becoming stranded from its mother in Cornwall. The female fin, which was 6.2m (20ft) in length, was reported stranded yesterday at 7am in the shallows at Pentewan ...

Experts monitoring a stranded fin whale calf have said they are "carefully considering euthanasia options to stop further suffering". British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said it was called to ...

It was spotted in distress and thrashing in the shallows yesterday A BABY fin whale has been put down after it was found stranded from its mother. The calf, 6.2m (20ft) in length, was spotted ...

A fin whale calf has been put down after it was found stranded in shallow waters in Cornwall. The female calf, measuring around 6.2 metres in length, was discovered at Pentewan Sands in Mevagissey at ...

A fin whale calf has been put down after it was found stranded in Cornwall. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said members were called to the Mevagissey area shortly after 07:00 GMT. It said a ...

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