Australian rescue workers and volunteers faced a race against time to save dozens of pilot whales and a small pod of dolphins stranded on a Tasmanian beach.
The 194 pilot whales and half a dozen bottlenose dolphins beached on Naracoopa Beach on Tasmania's King Island on Sunday evening.
It has been reported that about 140 of the whales died, but that rescuers were able to return 48 mammals to the sea.
More than 400 whales have died in Tasmanian waters in recent months, in a phenomenon for which scientists still have no definitive explanation.
One-Minute World News 
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