The approval by the government of Chile of the largest Marine Protected Area (MPA) in continental Chile is a boost to conservation efforts for blue whales and dolphins Valdivia, Chile: The approval by ...

Milo the whale shark has now been tracked across more than 34,000 miles, setting a record for the longest movement record ever documented for a shark. Retagged five times over nearly a decade, his ...

North Atlantic Right Whales are one of the most endangered species. There are fewer than 400 of these whales left in the world. For several months a year, these giant marine mammals call the waters ...

This past October, AWI representatives attended back-to-back annual meetings of the Ropeless Consortium and the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts ...

Opening in 2027, The Whale will explore the science, behavior, evolution and cultural history of whales through art, storytelling, sound and architecture ...

By Clea SkopelitiFederica RossiWouter Massink ・Collisions with ships are a leading anthropogenic killer of the ...

Whale sharks have unique spot patterns, like fingerprints. In the Maldives, these help researchers track their movements, ...

It’s a hyper-modern problem on social media: A video or image of an animal doing something seemingly unbelievable in the wild pops up on your feed, only for you to realize it is, in fact, unbelievable ...

Biologist Roger Payne, the man who propelled conservation efforts by introducing the world to the sounds of whales, has died. He was 88. In 1967, Payne introduced the world to the striking sounds of ...

Using underwater microphones and machine learning (ML), Cornell University researchers have developed a new method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers—offering a potentially safer and more ...

A southern right whale and her calf were spotted close to the Whangārei shore, in what the Department of Conservation called ...