SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rescuers were trying to save the few remaining long-finned pilot whales still floundering in shallow waters off the Australian coast on Friday in one of the world's biggest mass whale strandings.
With time running out for up to 20 breathing mammals still trapped in Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania - and as news emerged of a much larger whale stranded on a Queensland beach - rescuers had managed to save about 94 of the 470-strong pod while almost all the others had died.
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