Infectious diseases are an increasing threat to wildlife populations globally, and marine mammals are no exception. Dolphins, ...

While whales do need fresh water, they actually don’t need a huge amount, considering their size. This is largely because, in ...

A whale shark was stranded on the sand on Varkala Beach in Kerala, India, but dozens of people banded together to help it.

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A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks’ teeth and found that future generations of ...

Orca whales swam off the shore of a Seattle neighborhood. The orcas were Bigg's killer whales, a group that hunts sea mammals ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

A South Carolina boater recently witnessed a rare sight just a few miles off Hilton Head Island: two North Atlantic right ...

Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...

A routine January flight over Cape Cod Bay turned up numbers – and whales – local researchers rarely see. One day, one survey ...

Federal data collected over four years have shown that derelict fishing gear is an underestimated threat. Some experts say it ...

The biology of Antarctic species is very different; warm things up by just a degree or so, and they could emerge into a very ...