Rescuers who have been trying to free a whale stranded in shallow water off the north German coast have said "every minute counts" as they battle to release the animal. Sven Biertumpfel, of the Sea ...

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 ...

German rescue teams have been trying to ease the humpback’s path back into deeper waters without success A 10-metre-long humpback whale stranded on a sandbar in the Baltic Sea is in danger of dying if ...

Rescuers used boats and excavators to try to guide 10-metre long sea mammal to deeper waters A humpback whale stranded on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast since early this week has freed itself and swum ...

A whale that was stranded for days in shallow water at a Baltic Sea resort in Germany has swum free from a sandbank overnight after a last-ditch rescue effort. But it isn’t out of danger yet. An ...

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The humpback whale was first spotted stuck near Timmendorfer Strand off Germany's Baltic coast on Monday. Rescuers managed to free a humpback whale that had been stuck on a sand bank on Germany's ...

NEARLY AN ENTIRE DAY. IT WAS KIND OF SCARY NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON AND NOT KNOWING IF ANYONE WAS COMING TO SAVE US, MICHELLE JOHNSON WAS ONE OF DOZENS OF DRIVERS STRANDED ON I-20 IN THE MIDDLE ...

Police appealed to onlookers, who say they hear the whale's cries during the night, to keep their distance so "that the animal does not become even more stressed”. A whale that was stranded for days ...

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