Cetaceans can be split into two main types: baleen whales (which have a sieve-like structure within their mouth to catch tiny fish when they take a gulp of water) and toothed whales (which eat prey ...

Researcher Imran Samad’s new short film on the endangered Indian Ocean humpback dolphins of Goa draws attention to these intelligent, highly social animals ...

Belugas and bottlenose dolphins have long brought glory to Canada's Marineland. Animals of the ocean were reduced to ...

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A trio of mysterious killer whales spotted in Vancouver Harbour last week has sparked excitement among marine researchers ...

Wikie and Keijo, stuck in unhealthy situations in France, deserve a safe place of refuge now, not promises of a better life that may not materialize.

Loyalty to the pod has been identified by scientists as the cause of a mass stranding and death of 55 whales on the Isle of Lewis almost three years ago. As The Guardian reports, the Scottish ...

A dolphin murder mystery is playing out on Patagonia’s shores: multiple mass strandings, with scores of dolphins washing up for no easily discernable reason. In one such event in 2021, for example, 52 ...

Experts look into the 2021 and 2023 dolphin mass stranding events and find that both were being chased by an apex predator.

If you can explain Antarctica, you've never been there.' That was the quote from our captain, Jorn Bowitz, as we set off on our voyage to the White Continent.

For about three decades, beluga whales and bottlenose dolphins greeted more than a million annual visitors to Marineland of Canada. In the sprawling 162-hectare (400-acre) theme park, located a ...