Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing 157 false killer whales that stranded on a remote Australian beach.

Dozens of false killer whales stranded on a remote beach in the Australian state of Tasmania will be euthanised after bad weather and the isolated location hampered efforts to push them back into the waters,

Feb. 18, 157 false killer whales were found beached on the northwest coast of Tasmania, an Australian state, by a cause that experts are still unsure of. One day later, the Associated Press reported,