On a March morning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state’s capital in southern India, a group of fishers were ...

A whale shark was filmed vacuuming up sand from the ocean floor, leaving viewers completely confused. This strange behavior is usually linked to feeding, as the shark may be sucking up tiny organisms ...

The boat turned out to be a 35-foot-long fin-back whale, freshly dead, leaking fluids for hundreds of yards. This slick had attracted an apex predator, its presence announced by 4-foot-wide chomp ...

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the ...

Bohol reopened one of its most visited sandbar islands, betting that tighter environmental rules can revive tourism income ...

If the sound of far-flung escapes and close encounters with a humpback whale floats your boat, read on for some of the ...

While the overall risk of a shark attack remains low, experts say warmer waters, various weather events, shifting prey and busier coastlines can increase the risk ...

THE prehistoric “super carnivore” megalodon was bigger than previously thought, growing to a whopping 80ft and weighing 94 ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) has been at it again, with ROV SuBastian diving along the coast of Argentina ...

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Since around 2015, female southern right whales have not given birth as often. These extended calving intervals mean fewer ...