A 13-foot Beluga whale was rescued after being stuck in France's Seine River for more than a week, but the animal died in transit back to the sea, French officials confirmed Tuesday.. The cetacean ...

During the rescue operation, the beluga whale began to have breathing difficulties, so experts decided euthanasia was the most humane option. Stranded whale euthanized after removal from Seine in ...

Rescuers pull up a net as they rescue a beluga whale stranded in the Seine river at Notre Dame de la-Garenne, northern France, August 9, 2022. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP/Getty ...

Rescuers work to move a Beluga whale that strayed into France’s Seine river to a saltwater basin, near the Notre-Dame-de-la-Garenne lock in Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne, France.

French rescuers were forced to euthanize an emaciated, 13-foot Beluga whale Tuesday that wandered into France’s River Seine last week, swam upstream and resisted efforts to be guided back to sea.

It remained unclear why the whale had strayed so far from its natural habitat. France’s Pelagis Observatory, which specializes in sea mammals, said in a statement that the nearest beluga ...

France whale: Hopes fading for lost mammal stuck in River Seine. 7 August 2022. ... French rescuers desperately trying to save a beluga whale trapped in the River Seine say there is little hope it ...

PARIS (AP) — Efforts to feed a dangerously thin Beluga whale that has strayed into the Seine River in France have failed so far and experts are now trying to get the whale out of the river lock ...

Aerial image via drone from the environmental group Sea Shepherd of a Beluga whale in the Seine river in the Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne region, west of Paris, August 5, 2022.