Record births are slowing the endangered species’ decline, potentially shifting the regulatory landscape for the state's ...

From deep oceans to frozen Antarctica, these animal mothers go to unbelievable lengths to protect their babies.

North Atlantic right whales, which give birth off the coast of Georgia, the Carolinas and Florida each winter, had their most successful calving season in more than 15 years. There are only about 380 ...

The B.C. government's pipeline standoff is not the first time a NDP premier has fought the federal government over the use of coastal waters, a University of Victoria historian says. In 1975, premier ...

An iconic humpback whale known as Big Mama is back in Washington, according to the Pacific Whale Watchers Association. The migrating whale made a roughly 3,000-mile journey from Hawaii to Boundary Pas ...

Imagine a love so profound, so devastating, it compels a mother to carry her lost child for weeks, across a thousand miles of ...

Two private investors funded the latest rescue following multiple unsuccessful attempts Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Timmy the humpback whale was rescued after weeks of being stuck in ...

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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, ...

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