A conservation group is planning necropsies on three sperm whales that died after being stranded off the northern coast of Prince Edward Island.

A central Maine man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a bizarre crime: trafficking the remains of rare animals from eastern Europe.

Stunning drone footage captured a pod of endangered Orca whales swimming in unison in the waters of Washington state.

Federal prosecutors say a Maine man has admitted to illegally selling the body parts of animals in violation of the oldest ...

Whale sharks, the ocean’s gentle giants, rely on small but predictable feeding hotspots, like the mackerel tuna spawning area ...

At a time when most people imagined ocean science as something happening in distant tropics, the scientists and artists on board the Arcturus knew that great mysteries also lay closer to home. The ...

Whales fertilize the ocean with vital nutrients; their excrement stimulates phytoplankton, oxygen, and carbon capture in ...

Building on the initial discovery of unidentified extractable organic fluorine (EOF) in Greenland killer whale blubber, researchers characterized EOF in additional specimens and identified some of ...

The online map, BlueCorridors.org, does not show live action but uses more than 30 years of data from satellite tags tracking ...

"A humpback who approached me peered into my eyes while I was aboard a boat and showed me the mirror of myself." ...

Researcher Jeremy Kiszka teamed up with a company that makes an app to follow the movements of species at risk. Proceeds from its sale fund the university's marine conservation efforts.

In my work as a veterinary pharmacologist, I never know exactly what I'm going to get when I open my email. It could be a ...