By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rescuers were unable to save the last surviving sperm whale from mass strandings in Australia and New Zealand in which 91 whales have died since the weekend. In all, 24 sperm whales and 2 minke whales died in a stranding at Ocean Beach, in Tasmania. In New Zealand, 65 pilot whales died. Australian authorities had been trying to guide the sperm whale to open water when it died late Wednesday.
(Source: www.nytimes.com )