From “elusive” baby sea creatures to “divorcing” animal mates, here are some of the latest international animal stories.

From the slow moving sloth to the misunderstood pitbull, this is your guide to various animal awareness days of each month.

With its cartilaginous body and cold blood, the whale shark is decidedly not a whale. But this shark is about as long as a humpback and just as gentle. So gentle, in fact, that tours to dive with ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited the impact ...

Trump's Monday order declaring a national energy emergency took direct aim at the authority provided by the Endangered ...

Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater features such as seamounts and canyons as well as artificial features like ...

“Within eight million years, the ancestors of whales go from being fully terrestrial, such as the four-legged, furry ...

The pace of salmon recovery work — and difficulty in funding these complex projects — is hindering our ability to recover ...

A giant seabug which loves the dark side has been named after Star Wars ’ most famous Sith lord. Bathynomus vaderi is an ...

A young humpback whale wrapped in fishing net beached in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, stoking calls for fishermen to avoid abandoning ...

Though the new rule applies to southern resident whales and not transient killer whales, it is difficult for the untrained ...