One aspect of our colonial past was the way we were kept in ignorance of the richness of our biological life, especially of ...

With over 60,000 ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar each year, this stretch between the Atlantic and Mediterranean ...

Cook Inlet beluga whales, an endangered Alaskan population of about 300, use distinct call types for different activities.

Courtesy of Tiffany Boothe / Seaside Aquarium Last Tuesday, a 40-foot gray whale floated ashore on Seaside Beach, its long tail bobbing in the ocean waves. A necropsy on Friday revealed the whale was ...

Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales face a crisis they can’t outswim — and a recent move by the federal government threatens to make a dire situation even worse.

Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species is a growing concern. An orca near the shoreline of Baja California Sur, ...

An adult female dead gray whale floated into the San Francisco Bay in California in March California's blustery San Francisco Bay is home to the Golden Gate Bridge, commercial ports, public marinas ...

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will help predict endangered whale habitat, guiding ships along the Atlantic coast to avoid them. The tool is designed to prevent ...

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California's blustery San Francisco Bay is home to the Golden Gate Bridge, commercial ports, public marinas and ferry boats. But more recently, a new sight is attracting locals' attention: Eastern ...

Tourists are helping scientists by documenting a rare humpback whale phenomenon whose function is not understood. Known as ...