marine mammals, Tag

This week, Canada’s parliament passed a long awaited Act that will prohibits whales, dolphins and porpoises from being bred or contained in captivity...

Captain Ross Files sees ripples on the surface of the water down a side canal and instructs Captain Steve Browning to turn in that direction. Files sprints up a ladder to sit on top of the boat, his bare feet and legs dangling,...

Narwhals, or the "unicorns of the sea," could be at risk from additional Arctic shipping routes as polar ice continues to recede. A peer-reviewed study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests...

In 2019, two beluga whales, named Little Grey and Little White, will be transported from the Changfeng Ocean World aquarium in Shanghai to the world's first whale sanctuary in a protected bay in Iceland...

People have occasionally glimpsed tailless whales in western North America, but a recent spike in sightings has troubled scientists. This year alone, at least three flukeless gray whales have been spotted near California....

Under 30 vaquita porpoises live in the wild — but Donald Trump's administration may be violating federal laws that could protect the animals, according to a lawsuit recently filed by conservation groups and reported on...

An orca has learned how to emulate human speech for the first time. Through an experiment conducted by researchers at Complutense University of Madrid, Wilkie the Whale has acquired a limited vocabulary which includes the...

A beluga whale living in captivity with a pod of bottlenose dolphins learned to communicate using their unique "language" or sounds. Detailed in a new study published in the journal Animal Cognition, the extraordinary inter-species...

Of all the destructive impacts of a hurricane, with its life-threatening storm surges and massive flooding, the sudden lack of aquatic habitat is not a typical concern...

Environmentalists say President Donald Trump's administration has declared war on California marine animals after an announcement this week from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...

As if the world's marine animals didn't have enough to worry about -- with climate change, ocean acidification, and overfishing threatening their existence -- emerging research over the past several decades has also suggested...

New Zealand has announced plans to turn a vast area of the South Pacific, about 600 miles northeast of New Zealand's North Island, into a marine sanctuary...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS6vs2mDc-k Yet another couple is making headlines for their plan to give birth using the Pacific Ocean as their birthing pool and dolphins for midwives. "This has to be, hands down, one of...

The Celtic Sea, located off the south coast of Ireland, is a curious place; home to common dolphins, harbor porpoises, fin whales and a surprising number of marine predators, it has yet to be designated a protected Marine...

The endangered fin whales’ numbers hover in the tens of thousands, so any die off is significant, but since May of this year, nine dead fin whales have been discovered in the water between Kodiak and Unimak Pass in Alaska,...