Trained rescuers are helping move the whales into deeper waters At least a third of 270 whales stranded off Tasmania have died and more are feared to be dying, rescuers in Australia say.

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...