The carcass of a dwarf sperm whale is found washed up on an Adelaide beach, with a local tour boat operator who says he saw the "very rare" animal when it was alive and several kilometres offshore ...

A three metre dead whale, believed to be a pygmy sperm whale, has washed up on a popular western suburbs beach.

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Department liaison officer Brendon Clark said the stranding was the first by false killer whales in Tasmania in since 1974.