The federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to ...

She and her colleagues also filmed an Antarctic blue whale mother and calf - the biggest animals on Earth - feeding in the same area. Mothers and calves, filmed by an international research team ...

The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo in France on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo's managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen to ...

"Those whales, that have spent their entire lives in captivity, their closest relationship is with humans. They are the ones who have provided them with food, care, activities and social relations.

"Those whales, that have spent their entire lives in captivity, their closest relationship is with humans. They are the ones who have provided them with food, care, activities and social relations.

SEATTLE -- An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in ...

While it's unclear what their nests looked like before the plastic era, today they are often dominated by blue plastic ... A ...

North Atlantic right whales were subject to "Yankee whaling," which ended around 1910, he said. Given the animals' slow rate of reproduction, the small number of whales that weren't hunted were ...

So according to the best prevailing theories, they were not getting enough to eat ... of fish for the whales.” The SeaDoc Society’s website offers recommendations that people can do in ...

Credit: Els Vermeulen Right whales can live over 130 years, but North Atlantic right whales average only 22 years due to human threats. The study underscores the importance of older whales in teaching ...

"Guerrero is the white whale, to be sure, and I do have a hard time fully envisioning the Blue Jays trading him simply because that organization has been so unwisely stubborn," Williams said.