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.

A humpback whale's likely final days in the Baltic Sea have been livestreamed across the globe as multiple rescue efforts failed to coax it back into deeper waters while the marine mammal gets sicker ...

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 ...

Why the world tried to save Timmy: The science behind our urge to rescue doomed animals.

Officials say it was "perfectly human" to attempt to free the animal despite many warnings from conservationists about the humpback's health and stress level. Despite the carcass potentially carrying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicknamed Timmy by German media, the whale was spotted swimming near Germany's Baltic Sea coast on March 3, far from its natural ...

BERLIN — A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said. Nicknamed Timmy by German ...