International Fund for Animal Welfare

The carcass of a young Minke whale washed ashore on a private beach in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 17 days ago and, as neighbor Lynn Holdsworth made clear, it is “absolutely disgusting.” The whale — or what’s left of it — is about 15 feet long. The remains are so smelly they’re keeping neighbors awake at night. Caroline Collins thought it would…

The smell produced by the remains of a dead whale on a private beach in Plymouth are prompting complaints.

Five dolphins were rescued Monday after getting stranded on a beach in Cape Cod, with video showing the pod being helped back into the ocean. The dolphins were stranded in Brewster and Wellfleet, but released at Herring Cove in Provincetown, Massachusetts, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), whose stranding team had local and federal help. One dolphin,…

A dolphin was stranded on a Cape Cod beach Saturday and needed to be rescued. The dolphin was stranded around noon in Eastham, Massachusetts. The International Fund for Animal Welfare rescued the dolphin and released it back into the water in Provincetown at Herring Cove Beach later in the day. Video from the scene showed the dolphin needed a little…

Last week, many New Englanders were sad to hear about the death of Vector the whale. The female humpback, tracked by scientists for more than 30 years, was found lifeless in Cape Cod Bay..

Beachgoers flocked to Sandwich, Massachusetts Tuesday morning to capture a devastating sight – a deceased, overturned whale off Cape Cod. The beached whale was reported some time before 10:30 a.m. in East Sandwich, where the marine animal’s remnants could be seen on the sand.

A minke whale has died in Cape Cod waters, the third such whale found in area waters this season.

Dozens of people have helped rescue seven Atlantic white-sided dolphins that were stranded off the coast of Cape Cod over the weekend.

Two dolphins have died and a dozen more have been rescued after they became stranded on Cape Cod.

Crews from the International Fund for Animal Welfare attempted to herd an 18-foot-long minke whale back out to sea after it became stuck in the shallow waters off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts, on Thursday. The whale was found dead Friday morning in Stage Harbor. A necropsy will be performed to determine the whale’s cause of death.

The Cape Cod Times reports that one whale was already dead when it was found on Monomoy Island on Wednesday.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Marine Mammal Rescue and Research Team rescued one dolphin from a beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts on Thursday morning. Two other dolphins in the same area had already died by the time crews arrived on scene. The dolphin that was rescued is being transported to Scusset Beach for release. According to the fund, 2017 has...