Sharks were never far from our minds as we grew up on the beach in Adelaide. Although attacks were rare, they were real. My ...

After a strong opening to UN talks in pursuit of a Global Plastics Treaty, recent rounds of negotiation have been hindered by the efforts of fossil fuel industry lobbyists ... hunting and killing of ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

These tend to be the whale species that flee in the face of attack. These deep singers in the "flight" club include blue, fin, sei, Bryde's and minke whales. Meanwhile, their higher-frequency ...

A whale has been spotted making waves at Britain's top surfing capital in an incredible video that shows it playfully slapping the water with its fin. The humpback was seen by excited witness ...

MAEBASHI—Two fossils found by a lifelong collector of natural objects represent a new species of the Delphinidae family, whose offspring include the killer whale and dolphin varieties ...

4. Mediterranean Sea Whale Fin. Image via Depositphotos. Satellite tracking revealed that those found in Pelagos Sanctuary migrate southward to off Tunisia, Malta, Pantelleria, and Sicily, and also ...

Sander’s colleague Heinz Furrer of the University of Zurich found these fossils from the late 1970’s until 1990. At one site, Furrer found a tooth. Most of the giant ichthyosaurs previously found were ...

After a number of whales started to wash ashore along the East Coast in 2022, conservative policy groups and fossil fuel interests funded anti-offshore wind campaigns to “save the whales ...

This was likely so it could both swim rapidly and move along rough ... Some Species of Baleen Whales Avoid Attracting Killer Whales by Singing Too Low to Be Heard Feb. 6, 2025 — New research ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

It takes a day for Hori Parata (Ngātiwai) to dissect a whale. His tipuna have been doing this work for some 15 generations, and now his son does too. “We’re doing it because it’s a retrieval of ...