"The ... crisis is deep, wide, and pervasive, affecting ecosystems and animals in ways we are only beginning to understand." ...

New York City onlookers were surprised on Monday when a whale was spotted swimming under the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, ...

Conservationists at a zoo are mourning the loss of two "eagerly anticipated" baby elephants. Blackpool Zoo said a ...

Generally, the best time to spot whales is between December through April, with January through March offering the chance to see baby whales, too. There are a number of tour companies offering ...

Swimming with one of the largest fish in the ocean as a non-swimmer wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but I’m better for it ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — Today, a research team has proposed a new reinforcement learning framework with autonomous drones to find sperm whales and predict where they will ... Dolphins Sense Military ...

A new study has quantified the risk for whale-ship collisions worldwide for four geographically widespread ocean giants that are threatened by shipping: blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales.

Brainwave testing of two young baleen whales has revealed they can hear higher frequency sounds than previously thought, forcing researchers to rethink how the ocean’s largest animals respond to ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell the difference. Two adult sperm whales swim side by side in Dominica.

In a remarkable encounter off the coast of Alaska, human scientists had what they describe as a “conversation” with a humpback whale named Twain. Dr. Brenda McCowan from the University of California ...

Natalie Rouse shows a bag of blubber taken from a fin whale that washed up near downtown Anchorage. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) Natalie Rouse opened a large freezer on Thursday stocked with ...